How often do you go to the pool? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on June 15, 2011

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“Not very often yet.”

— Hannah Clark, student, Liberty, Mo.

“A lot.”

— Mike Beckman, retail operations, Jordan, Minn.

“I work all day so usually the sun’s gone by the time I’m off.”

— Lana Teegarden, nursing student, Liberty, Mo.

“All the time.”

— Sydney Beckman, seventh-grader, Chanhassen, Minn.

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yourworstnightmare 2 years, 10 months ago

I drop the kids off at the pool at least once a day.

dogsandcats 2 years, 10 months ago

With all those kids? screams

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

Somestimes when you test the water you get yer kay. . canoe tipped over. Rock on oh goddess of the ots!!

Blessed4x 2 years, 10 months ago

The last time we went there the entire family came down with Cryptosporidiosis. No thank you! That is an absolute nightmare. Never again.

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

Okay nix that. Mrs Roe says not in her lifetime.

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

autie . . we've met. You know I'm not either. If the LJW would do it as a fund raiser this old goat would challenge all the ots crowd to calendar up! What say JK?

autie 2 years, 10 months ago

I have actually had people pay me cash money to put my shirt back on...I'm no longer a beach kinda guy....sorry.

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

There's still next year! Plenty of time to put together the LJW Anonymous Poster Old Farts Swimsuit Calender! All entrants will furnish their own swimwear and grocery bag mask. Mark me down for April, Whitney!!

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

ssshhhhhhhh!

I'ma in my happy place . . .

autie 2 years, 10 months ago

Let me have to do something for a couple of hours and I come back and find all of these removed post? You boys should be ashamed of yourselves. The orangeness of your removals is most disturbia. Do you feel better now? And if anybody ever thought I would put on a sack rack like that must have lost there minds....

prospector 2 years, 10 months ago

Fish on!

prospector 2 years, 10 months ago

Pull!

prospector 2 years, 10 months ago

Fore!

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

Small white hard dimpled balls

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

Eskimo canoe.

g_rock 2 years, 10 months ago

lesigh

<---innocent.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

Whoa...

g_rock 2 years, 10 months ago

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scopi_guy 2 years, 10 months ago

I haven't been to the municipal pool since I was maybe 12. Would go to our pond a lot, take a raft and walk the ducks down with me and we'd all have a swim. Usually would come out with leaches, but that wasn't too big of a deal. Until the time I was floating around on the raft and I saw a big snake skimming across the pond's surface...that put and end to that for me.

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

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g_rock 2 years, 10 months ago

I prefer the beach. But Lake Perry will do in a pinch. I need a boat though. Or a boy with a boat. Aye Aye captain...

CWGOKU 2 years, 10 months ago

"That pic you were looking at is actually Autie and Orangechubb. They, um, made up with each other over the prior ugliness"

Winner, can't top that one T_O_B

wmathews 2 years, 10 months ago

The pool is my happy place until the children arrive and start splashing. Then I get a case of the grumpies. Nobody likes wet book pages.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

Orangechubb?

Cheetos and gay porn?

The_Original_Bob 2 years, 10 months ago

CWGOKU -

That pic you were looking at is actually Autie and Orangechubb. They, um, made up with each other over the prior ugliness.

CWGOKU 2 years, 10 months ago

Creepy photo you shared there, Propector. No relative of mine. Guys without body hair just not right

prospector 2 years, 10 months ago

Hitting the beach!

Wishin' you were here.

Older, more portly men don’t seem at all hesitant to sport speedo-syle swimsuits, props to their body confidence; nonetheless, many speedo-clad men spotted along the beach are of incredible athletic build. Regardless, every man seen in a speedo has one thing going for sure — a dark, deep, bronzy suntan, proof of his committed relationship with the sun. by Caitlin Donnelly

BABBOY 2 years, 10 months ago

Not my thing.

somedude20 2 years, 10 months ago

only when I have to pee or poop. No stems no seeds that you don't need Acapulco gold is some bad ass weed!

rumor_man 2 years, 10 months ago

Once a week for my bath.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago

"The" pool or "my" pool?

CWGOKU 2 years, 10 months ago

We go alot, definitely on the weekends, and some times in the evening. I take a day off from work once a week and go swimming. It is amazing how wearing a Speedo can get you alot of space to swim and sun.

autie 2 years, 10 months ago

Maybe you can go jump in the Kaw when it goes back down in august? Or better yet...wait until a friend of a friend sneaks you into a certain secret location. Then you could have delicous free state beer and fall into a secret otherwise unnamed location.

HollisBrown 2 years, 10 months ago

I won the "Who Shot J.R.?" pool about 30 years ago. I had my bath on June 12 at Potters Pond. I got arrested, plus I still stink.

autie 2 years, 10 months ago

Will the Hollis Annual Jump be on YouTube later?

Did I hear tell no compound this weekend? I have to find sanctuary someplace.

prospector 2 years, 10 months ago

Never, but I have been told to go jump in a lake before. Has Hollis had his annual bath in Potters Lake yet?

autie 2 years, 10 months ago

I did go to the pool once a year. At the end of March. I had to donate twenty dollars to be in the pool. Seems that the guy that owns the pool always got a cut of the pot. I think the pool may have been tainted.

RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago

Most candirus are very small and nearly invisible in the water. When they parasitize humans, it is usually only when they are urinating in the water. The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows it back to the human. It then swims up and lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines. Blood is drawn, and the candiru gorges itself on both the blood and body tissue, its body sometimes expanding due to the amount of blood. This is all said to be very painful for the person who has this happen to him or her.They are almost impossible to remove due to the spines. They are a species of catfish.

Nothing was mentioned in the article this was gleaned from about their survivability in chlorinated water. It did say they prefer muddy water conditions with low sunlight penetration.