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Apropos of Cooby's Neighbors (Split)

cooby Feb 01 2007 05:26 PM

My next door neighbors have been missing since before Thanksgiving

Johnny Dickshot Feb 01 2007 05:49 PM

Can't breathe. Cold.

Edgy DC Feb 01 2007 06:37 PM

cooby wrote: My next door neighbors have been missing since before Thanksgiving What is the deal?

cooby Feb 01 2007 07:17 PM

I don't know but I am growing very concerned. They left their garbage out for pickup, so it's like they were just going to work as usual and never came back. I finally put the garbage pails away after about two weeks, but that was early December! Maybe I should call the neighbor on the other side...

Edgy DC Feb 01 2007 07:30 PM

I'd say yes. I'd want the neighbors to ask after me after nine weeks.

KC Feb 01 2007 07:38 PM

Before Thanksgiving? It's freakin' February!

seawolf17 Feb 01 2007 07:41 PM

Yeah, that's beyond creepy. If you're friendly with them, it might be worth looking into.

cooby Feb 01 2007 07:47 PM

Well I suppose it's possible that they are on a really long vacation, but he's just back from Iraq and I know money's tight with them and I can't imagine them both just leaving their jobs for weeks on end. Every so often I see one of their (grown) sons over there for a day or two, and their son's girlfriend Beulah, presumably checking to see if there is any uneaten food in the cupboard. Beulah, not the sons. I'm calling Uncle Steve this weekend.

seawolf17 Feb 01 2007 07:50 PM

Providing Uncle Steve is a homicide investigator, I think you're good to go. Otherwise, you might want to call Goran & Eames.

cooby Feb 01 2007 07:52 PM

Holy crap, I can't believe you posted that picture; my daughter and I were just talking this weekend about how much that guy reminds us of Uncle Steve.* Uncle Steve is not really our uncle, btw. He is our other neighbor. *Looks only, not in strange head manuevers.

KC Feb 01 2007 08:12 PM

Well jeez coob, when you clarify it that people have been by doing this and that, it doesn't sound so bad. I was thinking why did you put your prints on the garbage cans and where the heck is the junk mail piling up and if the pipes froze because no one paid the bills.

cooby Feb 01 2007 08:21 PM

]I was thinking why did you put your prints on the garbage cans Oh, thanks, now I have a new reason to lie in bed and toss and turn at night. We all have PO boxes here, so the mail would not be a clue. I could ask Lorie, the lady at the postoffice! You see, the garbage cans out front were my first concern, because I would think they would have asked Uncle Steve to put them back, and he never did, so I wonder if he knows anything ]when you clarify it that people have been by doing this and that, it doesn't sound so bad Beulah's dropping in to eat all the food would be nothing unusual

Johnny Dickshot Feb 02 2007 09:05 AM

I don't know why, but when Cooby said she'd calll "Uncle Steve" to investigate, I just naturally assumed she meant Uncle Steve J. Rogers. I think a cop show with Steve J. Rogers as a private eye or detective has some potential.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 02 2007 09:25 AM

I think it's already on, and it's called Monk.

seawolf17 Feb 02 2007 10:19 AM

cooby wrote: Beulah's dropping in to eat all the food would be nothing unusual Unless Beulah's only using the "eat all the food" excuse to snark out all the diamonds and precious valuables while she's there. I smell something here. Get Fin and Munch there STAT.

cooby Feb 02 2007 10:38 AM

Mystery solved, I emailed Jan and they went to Florida to visit relatives and decided to stay there. Give up the PA lifestyle! Good grief. Turns out Uncle Steve would have been the go to guy too, he is keeping an eye on the place (apparantely putting the garbage cans away wasn't included) No, Beulah was in it for the food. I wouldn't be surprised if they moved down there to get away from her. Johnny and Yancy your two comments are funny

ScarletKnight41 Feb 02 2007 11:15 AM

Whew! I'm glad that's all it was, and that we won't be seeing cooby interviewed on the evening news ("They were such nice people....").

Willets Point Feb 02 2007 11:36 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Can't breathe. Cold. Goddamit I know I didn't have a checkmark next to this post when I did the split. I looked twice to make sure it was unchecked. How did this happen?

cooby Feb 02 2007 11:46 AM

Maybe we can pretend Johnny went cold with horror at the news of my missing neighbors. They are nice people, I will miss them. Not Beulah though

sharpie Feb 02 2007 11:52 AM

In a building I used to live in, my next door neighbors were a couple with a fairly sullen teenage foster child and a dog that barked like crazy whenever my then-small children were in our backyard, which scared them to the point they didn't want to go out there. The wife was somewhat friendly, the husband not so much. One day, the dog was gone. I have to say that this made me happy for the reasons outlined above. A while later I noticed that the teenager wasn't around anymore. Well, I thought, he's a foster child, maybe he wasn't working out or whatever. Then we realized that the wife was no longer about. I asked the husband one night about her and he said something about her being in South Carolina. Not long after that, he was gone, too, owing many months back rent. I guess the slow move was a way to escape creditors or something but I never heard of them again.

metirish Feb 02 2007 11:54 AM

With a name like Beulah she must be a real slapper...

cooby Feb 02 2007 12:13 PM

Beulah wasn't her real name (at least I hope not!) We called her that because (forgive me southern posters and onlookers) she reminded us of some southern trailer park girl. She was loud, brassy and did not fit in with them at ALL. We would hear them over there talking and hear a murmer of normal conversation from one of the neighbors then Beulah's crass answer and shrieking laugh. Also every time we saw her, she would be stuffing nacho chips in her pie hole and hefting a beer bottle. Since my neighbors weren't big drinkers, she really stuck out like a sore thumb all around. Like I said, I wouldn't be surprised if they moved to get away from her. Sharpie, your story reminds me, they had a big black Lab, sweet as the dickens, that we noticed missing too, I hope he is not still at the kennel!

Edgy DC Feb 02 2007 12:22 PM

Pretty ironic then to move down south from Pennsylvania to get away from Beulah.

cooby Feb 02 2007 12:38 PM

I was thinking the same thing. I hope they realize what they are doing.

Frayed Knot Feb 02 2007 12:42 PM

I have (had actually as both are now deceased) two relatives named Beulah.

cooby Feb 02 2007 12:43 PM

Oops. Forgive me northern posters and onlookers with aunts named Beulah

Frayed Knot Feb 02 2007 12:54 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 02 2007 08:09 PM

Grandma was born in Wash DC in 1900 and, for all I know, Beulah might have been the most popular name of that time & place. (although, now that I think about it, she may have been born in Boston before living in DC later on) They then named their NY-born daughter Beulah (mid-1930s) and her parents always referred to her by her full name; Beulah Virginia (my grandparents were very formal people). But I don't think younger Beulah liked her name very much as we always knew her as 'Beave', a nickname my father called her as a child, and later on as an adult she used Ginny the diminutive of her middle name.

cooby Feb 02 2007 01:08 PM

I always liked the name Ginny, it's pretty

seawolf17 Feb 02 2007 01:10 PM

[url=http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html]Looks[/url] like Beulah peaked in the 1900s (77th most popular), then dropped off slowly but steadily until it vanished from the top 1000 by the 1960s. Kinda like our grandkids are all going to be talking about Great-Aunt Kaitlyn and what a weird name that is.

KC Feb 02 2007 01:16 PM

c: >>>she would be stuffing nacho chips in her pie hole and hefting a beer bottle<<< I'm dying over here and holding back a chrome-off-a-trailer-hitch comments.

cooby Feb 02 2007 02:42 PM

That baby name thingy's not working for me, but for a name to go from 77th to more than a 1000th in just 60 years sounds pretty impressive to me

Willets Point Feb 02 2007 02:48 PM

My name has gone from 965 to 104 over the course of my lifetime. I'm such a trend setter.

metsmarathon Feb 02 2007 04:59 PM

cooby wrote: I always liked the name Ginny, it's pretty almost as pretty as Rummy Ginny's peak was at just under 40 named per million babies in the 60's nobody named their kid rummy. yet.

metsmarathon Feb 02 2007 05:05 PM

in my life, i've dropped from 20 to 40. so sad.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 02 2007 05:31 PM

In the 1940s I was 8. In 2005 I dropped to 579. Ouch!

KC Feb 02 2007 06:18 PM

Kevin peaked right before I was born and has been slipping ever since. This kinda surprises me, because I was the only Kevin in school well into the late 70's and now I think it's a pretty common name. I think the baby name machine is all pretty java graphics and short on substance. I couldn't get it to work on two computers and it finally works on my laptop.

Frayed Knot Feb 02 2007 08:13 PM

Been as high as #2 and am usually (and currently) in the top 10. Now it might seem to y'all that you just don't meet too many people named Frayed - but there are a lot more of us than you realize.

SteveJRogers Feb 02 2007 09:22 PM

="Yancy Street Gang"]I think it's already on, and it's called Monk. Nah, this is probably closer to the real me: Greg Medavoy, NYPD Blue.

Rockin' Doc Feb 04 2007 03:47 PM

I've experienced a free fall decline in popularity since before I was even born.

cooby Feb 04 2007 08:23 PM

Nonsense, we all like you

Rockin' Doc Feb 04 2007 10:59 PM

Hey, as long as cooby likes me, life is good. Seriously, thanks for the support. I like y'all too.

cooby Feb 22 2007 06:16 PM

House is now for sale :(

ScarletKnight41 Feb 22 2007 06:39 PM

Compared to what we all thought when we started discussing your neighbors, this is a relatively happy ending. Besides, you're rid of Beulah now!

cooby Feb 22 2007 07:24 PM

That's true...I'm glad I heard from Jan or I'd really be wondering. You know, I just read through this again, and I realize that with Jan, and Uncle Steve, and Beulah, and Hootch the Dog, and Lorie at the Post Office, it sounds like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood or something.

Edgy DC Feb 22 2007 10:38 PM

What's the asking price?

cooby Feb 23 2007 11:22 PM

Don't know yet, but if you'd like to make an offer, I'd put in a good word for you Edgy.