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#124389 03/05/04 11:23 PM
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Anyone who had to pick cotton for a living, never had a chance to pick anything else. Well, at least one person picked picking cotton when offered this as an alternative to house work. One of the former slaves I listened to on the other site said she'd much rather be outdoors where she could be out in the good air and maybe get a breeze, more than you could in the kitchen.

My God, aren't we thankful that we live in the world we live in today? Just thinking of what some people went through back then, such as maybe wondering whether they'd get enough, or even anything, to eat, makes some of the things I like to fuss about seem--below petty.


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One of the former slaves ... said she'd much rather be outdoors where she could be out in the good air and maybe get a breeze, more than you could in the kitchen.

Sounds like she was trapped between the crockery and a hard place.

You could say she had a choice between breaking her back or baking her bacon.



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re: One of the former slaves I listened to on the other site said she'd much rather be outdoors where she could be out in the good air and maybe get a breeze, more than you could in the kitchen.

field hands were slightly less likely to be raped, which might have been another unspoken part of her perference, too.




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My God, aren't we thankful that we live in the world we live in today? Just thinking of what some people went through back then, such as maybe wondering whether they'd get enough, or even anything, to eat, makes some of the things I like to fuss about seem--below petty.


Still far too many people in this world going hungry to the point of dying of starvation (well, let's face it even one would be too many).

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too many people in this world going hungry to the point of dying of starvation ... one would be too many

As Jackie says, we should be thankful. We aren't even starved for words.

Mind you, some of us would be thankful if a few people around here made better use of the words they already have.

I don't mean to make light of world famine, Bingley. It's a desperate problem.

But let's not forget we would all benefit from a little famine in this forum.

I am not thinking about faldage so much. That doesn't mean anything. I am thinking about nit-pickers who won't stick to their own knitting.

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Still far too many people in this world going hungry The "we" I was referring to are those of us here on this board, specifically to avoid the above ref. Those fortunate enough to be able to own a computer are unlikely to have to go hungry.


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The "we" I was referring to are those of us here on this board, specifically to avoid the above ref.

Sorry if I seemed to confuse your very noble sentiment with mine, Jackie.

When I said "some of us" would be grateful for a little famine, I was not thinking of any "us" in particular. To be perfectly honest, I was thinking of myself ... whom some of us consider highly.

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Me: Still far too many people in this world going hungry.

Jackie: The "we" I was referring to are those of us here on this board, specifically to avoid the above ref. Those fortunate enough to be able to own a computer are unlikely to have to go hungry.

But we live in the same world as those who do go hungry. It's not confined to the past.

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we live in the same world as those who do go hungry

I have no comeback to that, Bingley, except "Thank you" and "Amen".


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