Scarlet Pimpernel

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??

Two words: sippy cup!! (for you, of course, filled with the beverage of your choice and cleverly hidden!)

Sadly, it's been dismantled and sold for scrap since the Reaper retired!

So it's like being lost in the forest. The worst you'll be is halfway through!

Woo-hooo! Congrats WxWatcher!! Maybe you'll be blessed with a snowstorm like @mappy did in 2009! (I see she 'd me on that already haha!)

That's a very grave statement!!

Graupel, perhaps?

Old habits die hard!! I hope you cashed out your retirement fund from the Panic Room casinos!

I await the arrival of a very strong ----H2O index, which correlates highly with decreased La Nina winter depression meme-generation.

Yay!!! Meteorological Winter just around the corner!!! But it's a La Nina this year....

Including the "XMAS 26 DAYS AWAY!" part?

For all the despair going on about this winter so far, just remind yourself what it was like in December 2015. Yeah, yeah we got the blizzard in January, but it's not like anyone knew or expected that at the time, or even necessarily thought we'd be heading into a decent pattern the next month.

Thank you!! And yeah, it was really cool!!

A moderator's job is NEVER done, eh?! (BTW, off-topic...but the other month I was able to see Galaxy Quest in a theater over in Rockville!! Pretty cool! They were showing classic films from the '90s or something and I happened to see that was one they were putting on!!)

I'm not quite into daily model checking yet...but perhaps close, especially if something appears on the horizon! I definitely have been coming in here more lately, as I usually do as winter approaches.