@jbartus Methinks they are just messing with you.

@PlacidPenguin They are doing this on purpose to get you riled up. Or maybe they are just trying to get your goat.

@Barney

Whose Goat is Gotten?
Surely @f00l is essence of
Goat. Only One Goat.

@Barney

Ha ha Goat fixed the
Hideous Error. Send all
Blames forth to the Goat!

@f00l Ha ha! I didn’t make a comment about your error!

Although @djslack got a great pallet.

@Barney

@Barney practices
Sneaky purple post edits.
Removes post. Sneaky.

@Barney

Personally, I’d find it hilarious if Meh sent me a goat. Although I don’t live upstate, so keeping it might be a bit harder.

But seriously, how cool would a goat be?

Of course, what does one do with a goat though?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin I know one goat that I wouldn’t want.

@Barney

He’s trying his hardest not to succumb to this month. It’s only the 11th. He has 20 days left, AND he’s going without sleep (or so he claims).

To be honest, this is the second goat for whom I’ll be sad that their goathood finished (although he’s getting close to beating out the other person).

@PlacidPenguin awwwwww I forgot about posting a pic of my baby in that post. In honor of this next fuko I’ll post a pic of my kid again. Only now she’s two and a half and will likely be screaming about how she hates me and “No! Mama do it!”

@PlacidPenguin
@Barney

A Goat is a Goat, bloat quote, bloat quote
And no one can talk to a Goat, close quote,
That is, unless, the Goat, close quote
Is the famous @f00lish @f00l.

Go right to the bloat and ask the Goat
It’ll give you the answer that you will tote,
It’s always writing out a note,
Talk to @f00lish @f00l.

People yakkity-yak a streak and waste your time of day
But @f00lish @f00l will never speak unless @f00l has something to say.

A Goat is a Goat, of course, of course,
And this one’ll talk 'til his voice is broke,
You never heard of a talking Goat?
Well listen to this: “I’m @f00lish @f00l”.

@f00l

That reminds me of some “songs” in The Fellowship of the Ring.

@PlacidPenguin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Ed

@PlacidPenguin

@f00l forgot to edit a few of the lyrics for Goat-relevance, so blame @f00l that’s it’s not perfect.

@f00l

You get some bonus points for bringing Mr Ed into the discussion.

@PlacidPenguin That was a great pallet! TVs for everybody!

Another time I got a Marlboro light up clock sign. It’s no severed leg, but it’s certainly not too shabby. The Fuko gods have smiled upon me far more than I deserve. It more than makes up for not getting in on this last round.

@PlacidPenguin I ate goat once. It was pretty disappointing.

@Pantheist

If I were to get a goat, I wouldn’t think of eating it (necessarily).
Or at least, that wouldn’t be in the first 18 things which would cross my mind.

@Pantheist

Sure you don’t mean that the goat was disappointed?

@PlacidPenguin
Well wouldn’t you be? Disappointed, I mean? If you knew you had been cooked so that @Panthiest of all people would be eating you?

@f00l

It could have been @Pantheist, so…

@PlacidPenguin

Why? He’s just @Panthiest living out his life as @Panthiest. No worries there, right?

@f00l

My point was that the “I before E” rule doesn’t apply in this case.

@dagirlgenius

The weight doesn’t always get updated.
That’s part of the suspense/disappointment/nervousness.

@PlacidPenguin Pallets come by truck and not smart post If you get a pallet you could get a call about delivery address - at least I did for the pallet of broken TV’s that I had to turn down due to no place out of the weather to put a pallet.

@Kidsandliz

I can’t decide if by you saying that you’re trying to give people hope, or if you’re trying to disappoint people.

@Kidsandliz
You were the one who got the pallet of broken tv’s?

Did you refuse over the phone or did you get a look before you turned it down?

@f00l @Kidsandliz

Pretty sure she turned it down when she was asked for an address based on this comment.

@dagirlgenius @f00l @Kidsandliz @PlacidPenguin The first thing you learn is that the ‘shipping weight’ and ‘shipping dimensions’ are yuuuge, bigly lies. Like, the most biggest lies EVAR. You just laugh hysterically at the idea that they would tell the truth. Wait, what does that remind me of?

@f00l I didn’t know they were TV’s until after the fact. I got an email that they wanted my actual address, truck was leaving today… I turned it down due to no where to put anything, then found out it was the broken TV’s. Pretty sure Jon was going to give them to me because I had commented not long before that I had made a working laptop out of two broken ones with only 2 screws left over. Thus the assumption I’d be able to canabalize to make a working Tv or two. In that respect it was too bad I had to decline as I could have used one. Can’t remember if the guy who got them managed to make a working one out of them…

@Kidsandliz Who gets what in a fuku/fuko is determined by the luck of the draw.

@Kidsandliz
@OldCatLady

Have they yet managed to put in some kind of fuko filter to prevent pallet shipments from going to people with small residences?

Good grief. Autocorrect xlated “residences” into “responsibility fences”.

@KidsandLiz
Were the two laptops the same model? If so or not, either way am impresssed. You seem to have a lot of unexpected skills useful in an apocalypse.

@Barney

You’re certain no evil forces are ever st work?

@f00l Only evil goats who sing off key.

@OldCatLady

You reminded me that January Is Coming. At least I won’t have to take the blame for what happens that month.

@Barney

Wait?! How have you been listening me sing in the shower? Are you with the NSA?

@f00l The name’s Barney… Purple Barney

cough cough cough cough cough

@OldCatLady

Does it remind you of people who utter these words: If elected… ?

@Barney

/giphy "purple spy"

@f00l

NOOO!!!

I’m not ready for January! The only thing helping me get through December is the fact that you’re goat!

@PlacidPenguin
I’m not ready either.

@f00l Mac G3 laptop, same model. Key is lay the parts out in order that you remove them on the floor. Swap out one part at a time. I was lucky though in that one had a cracked but working screen, the other wouldn’t turn on but the screen wasn’t busted so since i couldn’t easily swap the screen, figuring out which parts out of the working one to swap out was what I did. Took 3 tries. In an apocalypse there would not be electricity or the internet. Useless skill.

@Kidsandliz except that such an ordered and analytical process is beyond most people (sadly) and so while your ability to repair a computer may not directly have a use the skill of troubleshooting for bad parts would translate to other items.

@Kidsandliz
@jbartus

Plus she does tall ships and educational voodoo and carillons and good stuff in war-torn places and I suspect possibly ngo stuff.

About which we all want to know more, please.

And all that sounds pretty good stuff and useful for an apocalypse. One in, say, January 2017.

@f00l

I’m checking the list.

OK, I checked it. We’re good for January

@f00l @PlacidPenguin @Kidsandliz @jbartus
Yeah, no. Let’s not do January. There’s no element of fun anywhere.

@OldCatLady @f00l
But you don’t even know what my idea for making January somewhat more sane was.

@Barney unless it’s a pallet full of zipties

@f00l Yeah I do ngo stuff - founded one years ago that built and funds a couple of schools and orphanages. Lucky for me I found benefactors who have pretty much taken over “their” school or orphanage so I don’t really have to mess with it and haven’t had to fund raise in years. It is pretty self running at this point. Someone else goes once a year to give the entire villages these are in dental care. I can’t really take credit for much of it at this point. I and a Cambodian (I couldn’t walk away from the poverty I saw there which made the kids on the feed the children ads look, in comparison, well fed and as if the lived in palaces - it was unbelievable what it was like in the late 1990’s there. At the time they were the 3rd poorest country in the world. Things have improved since then. Still not good but much better) pretty much got it started and it is pretty self supporting/self sufficient at this point in time. Oh wait. Isn’t that what good management is? Make your self dispensable? LOL

@Kidsandliz

Just awesome. Rocks rocks rocks. I don’t have words to say how much I admire that.

@f00l The Cambodian initiated this approached American after American thinking we were all rich. I was not LOL but then, I guess in comparison to most people in Cambodia I was. Mostly all I did was to put together interested people with the project. The first two or three years I worked my butt off (also did a lot of work for free and they sent what they would have paid me to the NGO), but the Cambodian did all the hard work in Cambodia getting things built, filed the NGO papers there… All I did was find a way to fund it. I don’t get paid (never did) and I got very lucky with some foundations that were interested and continue with their interest. Really all I did was be a go between who isn’t really needed anymore and I hope it stays that way forever : )

@Kidsandliz

Let me emphasize

You cared
You stayed
You worked
You did not quit.

@cinoclav

Hmmm… I had you on that list, for some reason though, your name didn’t make the post.

@PlacidPenguin I’m a secondary character in the world of Fuku/Fuko. If it didn’t come on a pallet, it’s simply not as cool!

@cinoclav

Secondary characters have a way of being bumped up to main characters.

@PlacidPenguin @cinoclav or to goats… just sayin’