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Whirled Views 10.8
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Today’s movie quote: “What do you mean, I’m funny?…You mean the way I talk? What?…Funny how? I mean, what’s funny about it?…But I’m funny how? I mean, funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”
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Sounds a little like Woody Allen. Annie Hall?
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New WMB:
Good: Links are easier to post and one can place more than one link in a post.
Bad: Posting is defective in erratic manner. Often can only post a few lines. Irritating error message about duplicate post.
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Where does one find the emoticons?
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Good Fellows?
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NJLawyer: If you type the accepted form of an emoticon, such as (I’ll insert spaces) : – ), you get
When you type w/o the spaces. ; – ) will come out 
, etc.
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Oops–something wrong with the second one. I’ll try another: : – ( will come out
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Well, at least I got the smiley one. I got the winking one to post once before. Maysomeelse can add some.
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Testing
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I guess one trick is not to put any other puctuation close to them.
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Happy 30th anniversary, michelle!
I loved your idea for collecting and recording memories and photos of your years together. Our 15th anniversary is coming up next week, and I’ve started thinking about doing something similar (baby/kids/time permitting!).
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Has anyone seen/heard from pentamom since the switch to the new blog?
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Musing wins again! Goodfellas is correct. Here’s a fizzy Coke to jumpstart your day…
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Lynn post 12,
thanks!
Second coke for the day and the day is just starting!!
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We went to dinner last night at one of Sonoma County’s finest: John Ash & Co. Beautiful presentation of expensive and delicious food. We enjoyed looking through the pages of photos and memories and reviewing our 30 good years. We also talked about some of the difficult ones. It’s good to review every once in a while.
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On another matter, my brother has long advocated if the US was serious about energy savings, the “government” would buy everyone a new refrigerator.
I’ve shaken my head at this idea for years, but we replaced our 20 year old refrigerator in March and to my shock, our electricity bill has plummeted 25%. I don’t particularly like this bottom freezer Energy Star refrigerator for a variety of reasons, but I’m impressed by the change in the bill. Anyone else seen such a simple fix?
(We bought a floor model from Best Buy and because it had dings and scratches on it, they gave us $750 in credits against the $1500 purchase price. It should pay itself off in five years, maybe less. The kids prefer gifts from Best Buy, anyway).
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Happy Anniversary, Michelle.
Congratulations on 30 years!
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A pressing question:
Can/should a person minister or take on leadership to a group that they do not want to take, feel equipped to take, and frankly, feel forced to take?
(This person is sort of a “nice guy” type girl and has tried to resign before it’s too late, but somehow through making little concessions, gets pulled back in.)
If she wants to be off the hook, is she sinning against someone in authority to insist on her “no”.
Is that unsubmissiveness?
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The pressure comes from not wanting to make people feel rejected, and that this group wants to exsist, but needs a leader.
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*exist
(I miss the preview window!)
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EYG
Don’t do it.
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Lynn should be in a good mood today. Her Charger’s won yesterday. It just hit me – were you at the game in Denver? Is that why you went to Colorado?
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It’s called drawing a boundary, EYG, and it is important that Christians respect–without criticism–the boundaries people draw for themselves.
I may think it’s a terrific idea that you take charge of the nursery program at our church. Especially since I hate the job and can’t find anyone else I can browbeat into doing it. After all, it’s for the good of the body and who can deny the cuteness of babies?
But, you may have a disease that means you should NOT be in there, but you don’t want to make it known to the world. So, you say, “no thank you.” And you don’t back down.
What if, however, you don’t have a disease, but you feel very certain that this is not a ministry you should be involved in–it brings you no joy, it makes you angry, children scream when they see you and it’s one more thing on top of a very long list of things you already know God wants you to do? What then?
Your boundary is set: No.
If for social reasons you need to squirm a little, try, “I need to pray about this and discuss it with my husband. I’ll get back to you tomorrow.” Then do so. Your husband is going to say, “No.” The Lord is going to say, “No.” So, what else can you say?
(I miss preview, too).
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#17 “Can/should a person minister or take on leadership to a group that they do not want to take, feel equipped to take, and frankly, feel forced to take?”
No.
If the group wants to exist, there are people in the group who care about it existing. There may be someone in the group who does have the ability and perhaps even the interest in leading lead, but who is not likely to step forward if someone else will do it.
I always thought of myself as a follower, not a leader, because I hated having to tell anyone else what to do. It wasn’t until my husband was a pastor and I found myself being looked to for a certain amount of leadership among the women that I realized that it was something I could do and in some cases wanted to do. (Though I still hate having to tell anyone what to do.)
There are times when we need to do something we don’t feel equipped to do and don’t like to do, because it needs to be done. Sometimes people who don’t particularly enjoy playing with babies need to help in the nursery. Sometimes people who like being in the spotlight need to work behind the scenes. (And sometimes people who prefer to work behind the scenes need to do something that other people will see.)
But leadership requires more than just doing certain administrative tasks. A leader needs to guide the group in choosing where and how to focus its efforts, which involves setting boundaries. And a leader who has trouble setting boundaries in her personal life (such as saying “no” to an unwanted position of leadership) will have trouble leading the group well.
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I just had to say I am so proud of myself for figuring out how to get Callie Leigh’s photo next to my name
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The barrage of manipulations and reasons are very forceful. She has read and lived the book Boundaries for years. It has helped and worked immeasurably.
The leadership mantle keeps being thrust upon her as “this body will be hurt if she doesn’t comply. After all, that’s leadership. Leaders have it rough.”
It looks like lack of submission to an , and the desires of the group But,she is angry because she’s been gracious, but her arm is being twisted.
Any little concession she makes in order to be cooperative is greeted as consent to take on the group.
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a word was randomly deleted above, but that was probably God’s protection.
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This past weekend WOTW has a piece at the top of their news section page for over 24 hours, called Cairo: City of Extremes. I clicked on it, naturally thinking it was going to be an article focused on Cairo. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was a solipsistic piece about the personal life of the author, Annie Snodgrass. There was very little info about Cairo at all, especially when compared to how much we learned about the author.
Now, this sort of thing might be OK for WMB, but I don’t believe it belongs as the lead story of the news section of WOTW. I also was annoyed at the very misleading title, and doubt if I’m the only one.
I expressed my opinion on the thread, using sarcasm, although I was not even close to being uncivil. So Lynn accused me of “despising ” WOTW and asked me why I come here. I replied (this is all on the Cairo thread) briefly. I tried to post another comment expanding my reply, but it won’t go through. So I’ll post i on Whirled Views. Here it is:
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Maybe you should pay attention to my actual criticisms. Doing so might help make WOTW a better site. Yes, I’ve harshly criticized HSK’s penchant for using idiotic puns as headlines, which often have nothing to do with the story at all, or only serve to trivialize what should be a serious subject. In fact, it has often appeared to be the case (and not just to me), that he only wrote the article in order to make the lame pun. If you think that’s the way to build the readership of WOTW, go for it. More power to you.
As far as this article goes, it’s not on WMB. It’s at the top of WOTW’s main page. It’s the lead “story”. I clicked on it thinking it was a story about Cairo. It’s not. It’a a story about Annie Snodgrass’s personal life, with only a few words about Cairo at all. There’s certainly not much information about Cairo in the piece. Lots of people clicking through to read the story are going to be disappointed, if not downright annoyed, after reading it. And I’m not knocking Annie Snodgrass. I’m sure she’s a fine young lady. But this title was very misleading, and the article really doesn’t belong on WOTS, let alone as the lead story on the news section.
You may disagree, but I’m pretty sure a lot more prospective readers would agree with me than with you. Same with my views on HSK’s puns.
I must say that your comment shocks me for another reason. I read lots of the threads on here, if not most of them, and I see people regularly say vile and hateful things about Christianity and Christians. I don’t recall you asking any of them why they’re hanging around. So promoting sodomy, evolution, atheism, etc., are fine with you, but criticism of WOTW is out of bounds?
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This past weekend WOTW had a piece at the top of their news section page for over 24 hours, called Cairo: City of Extremes. I clicked on it, naturally thinking it was going to be an article focused on Cairo. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was a solipsistic piece about the personal life of the author, Annie Snodgrass. There was very little info about Cairo at all, especially when compared to how much we learned about the author.
Now, this sort of thing might be OK for WMB, but I don’t believe it belongs as the lead story of the news section of WOTW. I also was annoyed at the very misleading title, and doubt if I’m the only one.
I expressed my opinion on the thread, using sarcasm, although I was not even close to being uncivil. So Lynn accused me of “despising ” WOTW and asked me why I come here. I replied (this is all on the Cairo thread) briefly. I tried to post another comment expanding my reply, but it won’t go through. So I’ll post i on Whirled Views. Here it is:
Maybe you should pay attention to my actual criticisms. Doing so might help make WOTW a better site. Yes, I’ve harshly criticized HSK’s penchant for using idiotic puns as headlines, which often have nothing to do with the story at all, or only serve to trivialize what should be a serious subject. In fact, it has often appeared to be the case (and not just to me), that he only wrote the article in order to make the lame pun. If you think that’s the way to build the readership of WOTW, go for it. More power to you.
As far as this article goes, it’s not on WMB. It’s at the top of WOTW’s main page. It’s the lead “story”. I clicked on it thinking it was a story about Cairo. It’s not. It’a a story about Annie Snodgrass’s personal life, with only a few words about Cairo at all. There’s certainly not much information about Cairo in the piece. Lots of people clicking through to read the story are going to be disappointed, if not downright annoyed, after reading it. And I’m not knocking Annie Snodgrass. I’m sure she’s a fine young lady. But this title was very misleading, and the article really doesn’t belong on WOTS, let alone as the lead story on the news section.
You may disagree, but I’m pretty sure a lot more prospective readers would agree with me than with you. Same with my views on HSK’s puns.
I must say that your comment shocks me for another reason. I read lots of the threads on here, if not most of them, and I see people regularly say vile and hateful things about Christianity and Christians. I don’t recall you asking any of them why they’re hanging around. So promoting sodomy, evolution, atheism, etc., are fine with you, but criticism of WOTW is out of bounds?
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EYG, I found when I was very actively involved in the Church that once you take on one thing they will ask for another and another. This is not bragging but at one time I was teaching school, teaching Sunday school, teaching Disciple Bible Study on Thurday night, was the second level of the prayer circle, was asked to head up a women’s leadership group, planned and organized a Women’s Tea that lead to a Titus 2 ministry. I couldn’t not live up to the expectations of everyone. They thought because I was willing to do 1 I would be willing to do 2 then 3,4,5 and 6. This was definately a situation where pride goes before a fall. I have stated many times that any time I had ever said I would NEVER do something I did it within 90 days. This is the period in my life when I committed the greatest sin I have ever committed and still have not forgiven myself for. Share my story with your friend and tell her it is OK to say no.
I did “Bake Bread for Jesus” Saturday afternoon. Chloe took First Communion and the children baked the communion bread. I had not done anything in the church for almost 3 years. I was very uncomfortable to begin with, so I took all the dirty dishes to the kitchen and hid out washing them. That led to me being in charge of the time of the baking wafers, then counting to make sure we had 300. It felt good and it felt like I had never left. Warn your friend she is in danger of burning out.
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EYG – I recently finished reading a book about discovering & developing one’s spiritual gifts. The author has worked with churches all over the world for many years.
He made the statement that sometimes it is better for a ministry to die than for people who are not meant for it to try to keep it going. There will be no spiritual power behind it. If it is in God’s will, He will call someone to it.
He also stated that churches have had to let go of ministries that they had thought were important. However, when the people of the church were moving & growing in their gifts & calling, the churches grew – not merely in numbers, but in Christians being discipled & growing in the grace & knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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Your Chargers are back too. Nice job on the Broncos yesterday.
Kim – Sorry, cat and cute kitty avatars are simply not allowed on this Blog. There’s got to be an official rule about this somewhere. Can we get a ruling?
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I agree.
Completely.
The problem comes when an influential person will not let a ministry go. That’s when square pegs get forced into round holes. People feel used and hurt.
The program becomes more important than the person.
And should a revolutionary come and say, “no, that’s not my gift or calling.”, it’s considered uncooperative and even divisive.
It’s frustrating.
Incredible!
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My 3-year-old granddaughter visited this weekend. Her mom (my daughter’s partner) and I took her for a walk in our woods. We spotted a “woolly bear” caterpillar crawling on the path, which provoked some examination and discussion.
At some one point, Mom (who is a grade school teacher at a private school for high-IQ children) decided to provide a “teachable moment.”
She asked, “Do you know what a caterpillar turns into?”
RG thought for a couple of minutes, digging through her mental reservoir of natural history. At last, she triumphantly announced, “It turns into a butterfly.” She thought some more; the floodgates of information were opening; she explicated further:
“The butterfly comes out of the raccoon.”
She stared in bewilderment as Mommy and Grandpa could not keep themselves from bursting out into intense laughter. However, we decided not to amend her understanding at this point. It’s always good to hold such moments in reserve to embarrass children when they become teenagers.
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1/4–My 3-year-old granddaughter visited this weekend. Her mom (my daughter’s partner) and I took her for a walk in our woods. We spotted a “woolly bear” caterpillar crawling on the path, which provoked some examination and discussion.
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2/4–At some one point, Mom (who is a grade school teacher at a private school for high-IQ children) decided to provide a “teachable moment.”
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3/4–She asked, “Do you know what a caterpillar turns into?”
RG thought for a couple of minutes, digging through her mental reservoir of natural history. At last, she triumphantly announced, “It turns into a butterfly.” She thought some more; the floodgates of information were opening; she explicated further:
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4/4″–The butterfly comes out of the raccoon.”
She stared in bewilderment as Mommy and Grandpa could not keep themselves from bursting out into intense laughter. However, we decided not to amend her understanding at this point. It’s always good to hold such moments in reserve to embarrass children when they become teenagers.
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4/4–”The butterfly comes out of the raccoon.” (Just like old times, except worse.)
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Travis, I do hope you are joking. This isn’t just any cute kitten. She is the spawn of Satan as evidenced by the fact that she wakes me up between 5:30 and 6:00 every morning! Sat and Sun included. She wants her wet, nasty food. She places herself on my stomach, crawls up to nudge me nose to nose, then wraps herself around my neck and starts purring. If that doesn’t work she gets on my night table and starts knocking things off. She thinks the water bottle I spray her with is FUN!!!
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So, Kim, why do want to use an EVIL CAT’s image for your avatar?
Should it be rated above PG?
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Random, it would certainly be a small world if your daughter-in-law turned out to be one of my children’s teachers. Quite plausible.
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EYG – Ditto # 20 as so plainly stated by Bob Buckles.
Isn’t it known that 90% of church work is done by 10% of the people?
TRR – Is that a picture of you smoking a cig?
Random Name – I just LOVE your story! Aren’t they just priceless!?
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EYG – Ditto # 20
TRR – You smokin a cig?
Random Name – Love the story! priceless!
(My 2nd attempt – first didn’t post.)
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When my son was about three he fell ill. He was obviously not feeling well. Red cheeks, laying still and being quiet (highly unusual). He put his hand to his head and with a pitiful expression he informed us in a nasally voice, “I think I have a beaver.”
Whenever I suspect he is not feeling well I ask him if I can check for beavers. He doesn’t find it humorous.
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VS, I think TRR is from Oregon? In that case it would be a spliff
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EYG – What would happen if she said no, with her husband’s backing?
Kim – My cat has trained me to get up & feed her a snack of wet food in the middle of the night. I’ve tried ignoring her, but it doesn’t work.
And speaking of “spawn of Satan” – that’s how my younger daughter referred to her older sister’s boyfriend for a while.
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Hot off the press!
Another Republican elected official– a pal of David Diapers Vitter no less– caught toe-tappin’ in the boys room! And he wants wanted to be a state senator too! Yesterday’s Times-Picayune painted another dismal picture of another Republican pervert who trawls from public restroom to public restroom looking for… love? Well, looking for something. Joey DiFatta is the chairman of St. Bernard Parish Council and a prominent Republican leader (until 2004 on the GOP state party Executive Committee). He just withdrew from his state senate race, after his arrests for lewd behavior in a public restroom were made public.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/08/another-toe-tapping-republican-caught-in-sting-ends-senate-bid/
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31 “Sorry, cat and cute kitty avatars are simply not allowed on this Blog. There’s got to be an official rule about this somewhere. Can we get a ruling?”
I was thinking about using the back of a cat’s head in front of a computer screen. (My usual view when trying to post). Oh well, back to the ole drawing board.
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Has anyone else read this?
Interview of the President by Al Arabiya
Oval Office, Colonnade, Map Room
October 4, 2007
Quote – President Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071005-5.html
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Interview of the President by Al Arabiya
Oval Office, Colonnade, Map Room
October 4, 2007
Quote – President Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071005-5.html
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And our little one would get an occasional “egg ache” (headache) and I do the same thing now that she is almost 19.
Never heard the term “spliff”.
I can’t believe you people who spoil these pets!
Crazy!!!!!! I don’t even do it for the grandbabies!
Karen – LOL at your youngest’s comment on Sis’s boyfriend.
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VS, “spliff” is a slang term for marijuana cigarette. If TRR is from Oregon, he’ll understand my joke
A good non-spliffing friend of mine from Wilsonville once joked that there is a question on the Oregon drivers test that requires one to know where to stash your spliff if stopped by the police…
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Victoria,
Great Bush quote! I like this one too.
“I trust God speaks through me.” – G.W. Bush
So, evidently God is telling us that all religions pray to him alike, and Islam preaches peace.
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Victoria posted another reason why I did not vote for GWB in ’04. He is too quick to spout wimpish, meaningless nothings. He is great when using a written speech, but his handlers should give him an earpiece and whisper sensible words to him to say “off the cuff”.
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Peter –
My problem with Bush right now is the fact he could possibly believe that everyone around the world prays to the same god, when in fact they don’t.
I don’t expect Bush to be a ‘Theologian’ but I do expect that if he believes in Christ as Savior, he would KNOW the DIFFERENCE between Buddhists who pray to the god within them, and Hindu’s who have many, many gods and goddesses. It would be literally impossible for Bush not to know some very basic facts about religions around the world, and the gods they pray to -
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Victoria, do Jews pray to the same god as Christians do?
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Night Train
Yes the Jews pray to the same God as Believing Christians do – Jew don’t believe in Messiah Jesus Christ as their Savior, that is the difference -
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testing
If this works, it will be the first time!
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LOL! No that’s me playing the horn. . . French horn. Never would’ve imagined that it’d be mistaken for smoking! See that in the lower left corner? I guess I can how you’d get that.
It is rather a small mouthpiece, isn’t it?
I’ve never smoked except one youthful indiscretion. Didn’t care for it.
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Well isn’t it obvious? If all of you see her photo and how cute she is you will encourage me not to kill her. She really can’t help it. She is a calico. Go look up their personality traits.
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Err….lower RIGHT corner, not left.
And I swear I’m not smoking anything!
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I love the cute things children say. I am sitting here right now wracking my brain trying to remember how Chloe said ambulance. I always love pamaja’s. She also used to ask me if “alients” were real.
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TRR,
A French horn??
…erm, wouldn’t that be a Freedom horn?
heh!
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Kim,
I like the kitty. It just wouldn’t be right if we didn’t have at least one kitty hanging around Worldmag.
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Kim – I know calicos have a bad reputation, but my calico, Peanut, is a patient & sweet little thing. And her sister, Tobi, who belongs to my friend, is the most timid cat we’ve ever seen.
When Peanut had to be examined by the vet, including palpating her bladder, the vet was amazed at how patient she was. You can tell by her expression & her swishing tail when she’s annoyed, but she won’t usually scratch or bite.
The only times she’ll try to fight is if she’s being picked on too long. And then I don’t blame her.
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Sorry TRR!!! My face is red! :=) (That’s supposed to be an “embarrassed” smiley.)
I’m glad I asked anyway because now that you told us, I really can see it perfectly!
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“He is great when using a written speech, but his handlers should give him an earpiece and whisper sensible words to him to say “off the cuff”.”
Didn’t they do that during the ‘04 debates? Remember the audio where you could hear the guy telling him what to say? Rove? He still looked pretty incompetent because he was talking to the handler at times and it came across as him being confused, which no doubt he was.
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LOL! TRR, I was sure it was a smoke of some sort too. I can see that it may be a horn–or a hooka!
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On the “kids say the darnedest things” theme, my son also used to use the term “wee–ooo–wee–ooo” to refer to emergency vehicles before he could talk. Those were the days. Very cute.
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Horn players only say “French horn” in recognition of the fact that most people will be confused and say “What kind of horn?”, if you use the proper term and say just “horn”.
Even Philip Farkas, principal horn of the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, in titling his famous didactic book The Art of French Horn Playing made the concession. I’m not sure why, since it was definitely aimed at horn players, but I’m not faulting him. He was a great player and teacher. In other languages, there is no problem, only in English.
It. corno
Fr. cor
Ger. horn
Rus. valtorna
etc.
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Along the lines of cute things kids say and Chloe taking Communion. Saturday the priest was talking to the children about the transformation of the bread and wine to the Body and Blood…well you can just guess where this went. Like the transformers? Yes, that’s right what did the transformers turn into? Sunday one of the children refused to drink the wine until another said it looked like blood. THEN he wanted some. It really was sweet. We had baked all those yucky little round pieces of bread and they were in a great big basket and the children got to bring them to the front of the church. I can’t believe that it has been 10 years since Chloe was born. Oh and one of the children asked if Jesus was baptized as a baby and I got to tell Chloe later that the traditional date in the church calander of Christ’s baptism is January 11th and that she just so happened to have been baptized on January 11, 1998. It really was wonderful to go through this with her. Her dad and I had her between us at the communion rail and her nana was there too.
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“Yes the Jews pray to the same God as Believing Christians do – Jew don’t believe in Messiah Jesus Christ as their Savior, that is the difference -”
I’m very confused. I thought the Christian teaching is that Jesus Christ IS God.
That’s incorrect?
So Jesus isn’t God?
Or Christians don’t pray to Jesus?
If Jesus and God are one and the same, and Jews don’t believe in Jesus as God or Savior, then how can they be praying to God?
Muslims say the exact same thing. They’re praying to the same god, even though they don’t believe in Jesus as God or Savior.
So if Jesus is really God, then how can anyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus be praying to the true God? That doesn’t make sense.
And if Jews pray to the true God without believing in Jesus, how is it that Muslims don’t?
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TRR,
I thought the French word for “French horn” was corne. I’m not sure where I got that from, though I just checked an online dictionary and it listed “horn – wind instrument” as one of the meanings for corne.
How do you say it in Spanish? One online dictionary says “corneta francesa” and another says “trompa.” We have a large Hispanic population, and I speak reasonably good Spanish, but musical instruments weren’t in any of my vocabulary lists in college. I was trying to explain to a woman what instrument my son plays, and her son (who speaks English) tried to explain what it looks like, but I’m not sure we ever got the concept across.
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I like one thing about the new blog – I can type the word “online” and it doesn’t reject my comment!
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Hi Pauline, hope you’re still praying for me.. but alas, I know you’re not or it just simply isn’t working. My eyes are getting worse and worse. Have your god send one of those miracles to help me believe!
#71, compounded with excerpts like this:
Genesis 1:26
And god said, let us make man in our image. It’s even MORE confusing. Couldn’t this god make things clearer so those stupid people like us could figure it out without having to have 3 PHDs?
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#41 Hamachi–email me at eman_modnar@yahoo.com and we can check this out. You realize if true, I will have to eliminate you with extreme prejudice.
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Karen O,
Her husband stepped in and released her from the obligation. He said no for her, and it stuck.
Of course, she’s sorry for all of the disappointment, but knows it is the price of her freedom and sanity.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zal8UnnzGiw
some of you may enjoy this clip of Saturday Night Live and their take on Sen. Craig
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hrw: SNL hasn’t been funny since Eddie Murphy, Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray were part of the cast.
Of course, that’s still better than Hamachi, who has NEVER been funny (at least not with his current moniker).
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Outkast, In my own defense, the other day I asked if your avatar was Larry Bud Melman. Glad to see you made the rapture too, friend.
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Random Name,
It is with a deep regret that I inform you of our close impersonal relationship. Ever see Six Degrees? I have reviewed the information available to me, and I know your DIL. She is a wonderful teacher. A brilliant and kind woman too. You are fortunate to have her as a member of your family. I asked my son what he likes best about DIL, and his face lit up. He said he loved learning about poetry from her, and that she is really, really nice. He seemed a bit embarrassed, so I suspect a bit of a crush. I asked if he liked when she read poetry, or when she taught him how to write poetry. He said both, with a big grin. In any case, mum’s the word. Let me live. I’ll email you in a bit. It’s books and bedtime here.
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Re: French horn- Wouldn’t that be what a Renault has? (Sorry, I just can’t immitate drill like I would prefer.)
TRR- I have also heard of an English horn. Is the difference in the shape?
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Oh, Lynn- Congrats on your Chargers finding the right day to win. I root for the Chiefs and whomever is playing the Broncos or Raiders!
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HRW – I can’t make out what your avatar is. What is it?
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if anyone is still reading this, we just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls, which my 6 y.o. called “Gunagra Falls.”
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Pay Day Loan…
From what I understand superintendents who visit Savannah intermittently authorize cash loans…
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