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With AnnaStrophic's permission, I start another new thread for the posting of neat non-word-topic stuff that Board members would like to pass along for the delectation of all.  s and  s especially encouraged ! wow
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I have a non-word discussion subject. Several contributors have felt that Weekly Themes is under-utilized. I respectfully challenge them to supply some samples of the uses they believe can be made of it.
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>Several contributors have felt that Weekly Themes is under-utilized. I respectfully challenge them to supply some samples of the uses they believe can be made of it.
The problem, for me, is that it is at the bottom of the page and I've usually given up by then. I always think that I can leave it for next time and then, the same problem happens.
To be fair to Anu, it is the only place that he posts items for discussion and it seems a shame to make better use of it. He did set up the board, after all. I'm always suprised when I do get to look at it, to see what I have missed.
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On of the things that I find interesting about this board is the opportunity to get an insight into different cultures from the perspective of the people who actually live there, rather than filtered through news media. I loved the moment when Jackie posted that it had never ocurred to her that people in other countries would have any reason to be interested in the election taking place in her country. I also loved it when Jazz asked why the production values of British TV shows were so bad - he got a few shots through the ether but maybe he was right, either way, an honest opinion is worth so much more than the tripe we are fed through the press.
My latest cultural sterotype to bite the dust is that the US cannot cope with sex on TV. I sometimes watch "Sex in the City" (HBO in the US, on our terrestial Channel 4), it deals with taboo
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One of the things that I find interesting about this board is the opportunity to get an insight into different cultures from the perspective of the people who actually live there, rather than filtered through news media. I loved the moment when Jackie posted that it had never ocurred to her that people in other countries would have any reason to be interested in the election taking place in her country. I also loved it when Jazz asked why the production values of British TV shows were so bad - he got a few shots through the ether but maybe he was right, either way, an honest opinion is worth so much more than the tripe we are fed through the press.
My latest cultural sterotype to bite the dust is that the US cannot cope with sex on TV. I sometimes watch "Sex in the City" (HBO in the US, on our terrestial Channel 4), it deals with taboo subjects in a very amusing way, especially interesting as it from the viewpoint of (over??) sexually liberated women, rather than the usual tacky male sub-porno stuff. It has attempted to discuss some very interesting topics about life and relationships, sadly(???) it is not at all like my life. A couple of weeks ago I videoed the show (it is shown at 10pm) and caught up with it later. I was amazed, even I was (almost) shocked, I certainly made sure that I taped over it, in case the children (10 and 12) saw it by mistake. Like the judge in the Lady Chatterley case, I'm not sure I would allow my servant to see it. So what I want to know, is America getting less prudish, which certainly seems to be the case judging by some episodes of "Friends" (usually shown here at 9pm but sometimes at 6pm). I'm less interested in whether that is good or bad, just whether it is true or not.
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>So what I want to know, is America getting less prudish
our tv and movies are certainly so; but there is also the real possibility of some backlash, what with the 'religious right' having seemingly gotten some renewed stroke as a result of the recent elections....
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what with the 'religious right' having seemingly gotten some renewed stroke as a result of the recent elections....if we're not careful, we might even wind up with - gasp - prayer in schools being legalized. reminds me of something i read recently, which i thought to be extremely powerful: Dear God,
Why didn't you
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>if we're not careful, we might even wind up with - gasp - prayer in schools being legalized.
Mmmm another strange thing. We have to have prayer in schools. Yes, I know the argument about not having an established church, some schools here break and everyone heads off in different directions to pray to the divine being (if, any) of their choice, it really isn't seen as a big issue
I sometimes wonder if we all had to explain the things that are regarded as "normal" and "problems" in our own countries to a Martian, I wonder if we'd be able to do it.
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I don't think so Jo. I think that values are changing, but it it becoming lower class-- by which i mean, sex is still "dirty", but in lower classes, its not a taboo subject.
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I do think there still is the victorian/purtian view that sex is dirty-- and middle and upper classes don't speak of it, but its lower classes do. I think most europeans don't think of sex as dirty-- its just an other subject. So, in some european shows, there is nudity that is not neccessarly "sexy"-- some one steps out of a shower, and you see their buttocks-- and then they put on a robe, get dressed, what ever.
In the US, it would be a BIG deal to show someones buttocks, and it would always be the beginning of a sex scene.
Likewise, sex scenes are always "steamy"-- since the whole subject is still slightly taboo-. Even somewhat realistic sit coms about normal married people (I think of "Everyone Loves Raymond" have you seen that?) still try to treat sex between a married couple as "steamy"-- and while it can be, after three children, and two jobs, and life in general, i think for the most part, sex between married couples is pleasurable, comforting, and except for odd vacations, or anniversaries, not steamy. and in Everyone, it "fun" to show the young couple trying to be or find momemts to be "steamy", but Raymonds parents are never shown to have any sex life.. or if it is refered to, it is past tense. "Old couples" can't be steamy, unlike the Britcom--As time goes by, which is about an older couple, who are in love, and do all the things loving couples do.. they are not always presented as "steamy" but are presented as a loving couple..it is not extrordinary that they have sex. That almost never happens on US TV.
Sex in the City in US is a cable show, and in general, all cable shows have "looser rules" (they are not as dependant on advertizing $$'s.)
Through out the US, there is still major opposition to sex educations-- (the thought being if you teach kids about sex, they will want it!) and sex and birth control information. I have no problem in the world teaching abstinence-- i encouraged my children-- but i also taught them, that it was their body-- and their decisions.. and should they chose to act, they should act with knowledge-- and know about sex, (and sexual transmitted diseases) and birth control. When i started giving general information they where in their preteens, by early teen years, i was quite open. My ex though it total irresponsible to teach my children about birthcontrol... they shouldn't have sex was his attitude. (meanwhile, we met when i was 17, and i was living with him by the time we had been going out for 3 months.. so was was good for mommy and daddy was not going to happen to his kids... I really though it stupid!)
I don't know what choices my children made (well i can guess some, since my son lived with his wife for 7 months before they got married) and i really didn't want to know... but i wanted them to make informed choices..
Abortion is still a major issue in this country, and while i think it should exist as a choice, i would much prefer to see all teen (and pre-teens) everywhere educated about sex, and treating it as part of growing up. then teen that want to engage in sex could do so with out needing abortion services. studies show the rate of abortion in US for teens is higher, (as is giving birth) than for most european countries. [/rant]
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>Through out the US, there is still major opposition to sex education
I'm amazed. My children undertook a major programme of sex education in Primary 5 (8-10 year olds). We, as parents had to go along and watch two videos with them as well as join in a discussion, over two evenings. It was intelligent and caring with all the anatonical explanations. They don't cover the abuse-related subjects until the following year, when there is a full drugs programme too. The programme is run in all the Catholic schools in the area and is highly regarded.
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Bridget--prayers to who? to which flavor/version of god? Jesus or jehovah or buddha? or one of the hindu gods?
my kids when to school with christians, jews, budist, and hindus. to which version of god should they pray to?
If you want to pray in school, fine, but don't expect me to support "school prayer". If parent want "school prayer" go to a private religious school. School prayer is a slippery slope. And yes i know that there is "Prayer" in some political institutions-- but that is Adults-- kids have enough pressure.
How would you feel about school prayer if the majority of student/teachers in your school district where muslims, and you said prayers from the Koran? -- If your kids where forced to start the day praying to a Hindu god-- does than sit okay with you? but somehow, its okay to force muslims and hindus to pray to jesus, right?
I do think, and most public schools shy away from this, is starting in 5th or 6th grade (10 to 12 years olds) a course on comparative religions. Let kid learn about the idea of religion, and why it continues to exist, and why one single religion is not taught in school. they learn about other "cultures" in social studies, but religion is a big part of culture, and almost never covered.
Let them learn too, about all the evil done in the name of religion-- Pick any one and you can find evil done in religions name. many "christian" churches supported slavery, and "jim crow" in US-- just as bad as catholic church "Spanish inquisition"-- or Hindu caste system. Religions might have done more good than evil, but there is no one "perfect" religion-- and not all the world agrees that there is even one god-- so until then, no school prayer!
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You asked, so here you are, a real trivia thread. It is about communication but not necessarily verbal.
My daughter was given “The Little Book of Text Messages” as a present. I was a bit sniffy about it at first, having avoided then for years but ended up in stitches. Here’s few extracts:
Messages from:
(_8^(I) Homer Simpson
@@@@:-) Marge Simpson
IIII8^)X Cat in the Hat
((:=)X Charlie Chaplin
I also now understand a few more emoticons:
:-( boo hoo
:-I hmmm
:-O oops
(-: I am left handed
:-& I feel tongue tied
:-S My last message didn’t make sense (could be useful!)
:-o zz z z Z Z I am bored (not possible here)
O :-) I am an angel
:-)<////> message about/from some one wearing a bad tie
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Bridget--prayers to who? to which flavor/version of god? Jesus or jehovah or buddha? or one of the hindu gods?jo anticipated your argument, in her post above: "Yes, I know the argument about not
having an established church, some schools here
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pray to the divine being (if, any) of their choice, it
really isn't seen as a big issue
i'm not suggesting that all students be forced to pray to a particular god; merely that those that wish to do so are afforded that opportunity, even if their parents do not have the means to send them to private schools. as for the argument that muslims, jews and other children would be ostracized for praying in a different manner, i would submit that religious intolerance is a learned trait, not an inborn one, and that the implementation of school prayer would go further toward encouraging attitudes of religious tolerance than the absence of same.
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>>the implementation of school prayer would go further toward encouraging attitudes of religious
tolerance than the absence of same. [emphasis added]
better make that "could"; it all depends on the teachers, administration and (ultimately) the parents.
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>the implementation of school prayer
I'm not too interested in getting bogged down in the argument, I'm sure that we could fill up pages and pages and still not find a resolution, matters of belief rarely do. I'm more interested in the differences between cultures.
I suspect that it hasn't been an issue in the UK to any great extent is that
a) We have never been offered the choice of removing it (certainly in recent times) so what passes for "religion" in most schools is rather tame moral stuff that most people can subscribed to. A catholic priest told a friend (true, but maybe a little out on a limb) that she would be better to sent her child out of the Catholic system as the doctrine was so far watered down for schools as to be almost unrecognisible. There are a high proportion of non-Catholics and (mainly) Muslems who choose the Catholic schools because of their better results and (supposedly) higher standards of behaviour. Church of England schools are full to the brim for the same reason.
b) We are much more hypocritical about religion. I suspect that people are more honest about the subject in the US. Anyone is Church of England or Church of Scotland by default and that seems to worry very few people. The only time most of my friends seem to "get religion" is when there is competition for a good school. Outside Northern Ireland and the West of Scotland there is a high degree of religious tolerance and a low level of interest in the subject.
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>>Through out the US, there is still major opposition to sex education
> I'm amazed.
Oh, yes, sex education is quite taboo. As far as I can remember the only
time my mother has ever mentioned birth control to me is just after
my wedding! I'm sure she firmly believes that I had never .. well, um.. you
know.. until I was married despite the fact that my husband and I lived
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somewhere along this thread, the messages (for me, at least) suddenly lost their format, and i have to use the scroll bar to read the 20-plus-inch lines.
is it happening to everyone? any idea why? tsuwm, resident technical expert??
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I was wondering the same thing... there are no long links, which are the usual cause.
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I figured it was maybe something buried in a cut'n'paste in bridget96's post - after all, bringing God into the conversation requires a broad mind
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>after all, bringing God into the conversation
It is definitely a sign from above. I think we should call in Father Steve. I just knew that there was a problem with non-word based threads .... aaaaagh
[Edit] = Maybe we're wrong, perhpas Anu has just decided to go out in cinemascope!
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I have tried to follow this post.
However the windows are double
width. I have to give up.
Anyone else have the problem?
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Yep, happened to me too. The window is wider than my screen. Makes the mice on the MacWheel have to run in 2/4 time, and still to no avail 
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The stampede to Weekly Themes seemed a bit less than a thundering herd.
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The stampede to Weekly Themes seemed a bit less than a thundering herd.
...and your point is?? [hands-on-hips emoticon]
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That several contributors of advanced status felt that posts I made to Q&A about Words, and to Miscellany should have been put in Weekly Themes where nobody would see them.
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...instead of which you are intent on keeping this particular thread alive which is so horrendously wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide that no-one can be bothered to read the end of the sentences..... 
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how odd.... yours is still wide? mine corrected itself as soon as it bumped over into "page three".
btw, i too thought perhaps the problem was the result of my font changes, until i realized that it occurred first in the post above mine.
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>until i realized that it occurred first in the post above mine.
I don't think we know (short of cutting and pasting bits into a new message in a new thread) -- one "bad" message messes up the whole "page", above and below. btw, this "page" is now normal for me also.
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this "page" is now normal for me also.
Same thing happened to me ... and then it righted itself with my Feb 20 post.
However, the problem persists in my "Words Learned in Genealogy" flat mode, started by wwh.
Arrrrggggghhhh!
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>I don't think we know [where the wide page problem originated] (short of cutting and pasting bits into a new message in a new thread)Oh yes we do! Unlike the rest of you, the problem still persisted for me, because I was still on Page 1, having set my Display Preferences to 99 posts per page (a la lusy). Setting preferences (temporarily!) to 1 post/page reveals that the problem is in fact bridget96's post with the long purple quote. Sorry to dob you in, bridget, but I just couldn't let you weasel out of it like that. 
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>with the long purple quote
but surely it would normally word wrap?
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Tried evey hint gleaned from these posts and STILL the window in Geneology thread in Miscellany is w--i--d--e, as is page one in this thread.
It seems the problem popped up after the shutdown for maintenance on the ISP from 5 to 7 p.m. last Saturday.
Coincidence? I wonder !!??!! Gremlins maybe?
Should send a note to Webmaster? Someone with some literacy in computers perhaps? (That lets me out! Whew)
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>Setting preferences (temporarily!) to 1 post/page reveals that the problem is in fact bridget96's post with the long purple quote.
maybe so, but I had suspected that as well and pasted the "purple quote" into another post with no problem....
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Found the same thing, tsuwm.
WHAT can it be?
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maybe it was one of those queer emoticons from the jmh post just before that....
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>maybe so, but I had suspected that as well and pasted the "purple quote" into another post with no problem....Did you put ["pre"] and ["/pre"] markup around it as I
have done here, and as I suspect bridget did in her offending
(as distinct from offensive) post? I think that the ["pre"] and ["/pre"] cause the same behaviour as the ["url"] and ["/url"] that we have noted with long links.
What does this post do to the display?
[edit-in later] Having established that this is indeed the problem, I've broken the red bit into shorter lines.
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Right after my post above
It all went w-i-d-e again
I am keeping this narrow
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*FINE*. First my signature line, now my inept attempts to follow *TSUWM*'s advice on making neat-o fonts.... i don't want to play with you guys anymore.
*runs sobbing back to her ICQ friends, who all use the word 'prolly' in every other sentence*
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There, there, Bridget... looks like you managed to fix the fancy font thang before you ran off to play with the proles.
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Sure now, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all, but for you
You're the momemtary star of the thread-- and just because we happen,
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to find your face a fine target for our cream pies, you're going to run away crying?
a fine irish name you're sporting, and not a bit of irish in ya? what a shame!
Why its a grand thing! sure any attention paid is a compliment!
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Wide display test completed. Normal program will resume momentarily.
(And you can decide for yourselves *which* definition of "momentarily" is more applicable).
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Excellent bit of sleuthing, Marty! We'll figger* this thing out yet! --- *Ænigma prefers 'fight'
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sure any attention paid is a complimentNope, i'm perfectly happy basking in obscure mediocrity. Oh, and Anna.... before you ran off to play with the parolees... well, they're not all *that* bad.
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well, they're not all *that* bad.Nope, prolly not
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just a (belated) note on using "pre" formatting; you get exactly what you type in...
including any lack of "returns"
there's no such thing as auto-wrap
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>when using
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It's been interesting reading the analysis in this thread. A wrench in theory I read the whole thread today & none of the messages were wider than the window/screen
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that's cuz once we figgered it out we all went back and fixed 'em up!
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How? How? How?
Please, somebody tell me
Reading w-i-d-e makes me dizzy.Not kidding.
Please, help. And simply put for idiot users, please.
Thank you.
I tried using the change the number of posts per page but no joy. Is there something else?
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How? How? How?
Please, somebody tell me
I assume that Bridget96 went back and amended her earlier post by inserting return characters in the long purple quote. It seems that if you copy and paste from another programme with the [bracket stuff][/bracket stuff] in place then the programme does not allow word wrap. The solution? It's OK to use another program (with a more reliable spell checker) to type your post, just don't add any clever url links or change colours until after you paste it into the "make a post window". That is my interpretation, anyway, maybe others know better?
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Ah-HAH
Makes SENSE to me ! You see? Miracles never cease.
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the implementation of school prayer
When I was in high school (Toronto, Canada), after the anthem we had a minute of silence, which could be filled with whatever thoughts or prayers you wanted to have. Not a bad solution, I thought, and religion could be saved for an elective credit course. It eliminated conflict, without removing the practice of beliefs.
I can still remember in elementary school, grade four, when a boy had to sit out in the hall every morning when our teacher read from the bible. His mother didn't want him listening to it, and apparently the teacher insisted on continuing to read. I always felt bad about this boy, stuck in the middle of the argument. Kids shouldn't have to put up with that.
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What a good idea, that minute of silence thing. That way, everybody could worship to his own god. I don't think people have anything against children praying. What had people up in arms is what god the children were made to pray to.
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School prayer
When I was in elementary school, right after WWII, we started each morning with a Bible reading (nearly always from Psalms), the Lord's Prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance. Nobody every paid any attention to the reading and the recitations of the LP and PA were totally mechanical once you learned the pledge (back in those days most children, or at least the ones I knew, already knew the Lord's Prayer by hear by age 3 at latest). This is why I am personally opposed to religious exercises in school -- it's hard to imagine very many students taking them seriously (maybe a few from very religious families) and I don't think it's a good thing to breed contempt for such things in the young. As to the Pledge, that was dropped after a suit was brought in the Supreme Court, and good thing.
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I agree that attempts to inculcate piety and patriotism in the schools tend to be counterproductive. But sadly, they are not being taught at home either, and mocked in public.O tempora, O mores.
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This is definitely a non-word topic, but i ran across it as i was cleaning out some files today and thought some of you might enjoy it. i think it's one of the funniest things i've ever read:
This is an actual essay written by a college applicant to NYU. The
author was accepted and is now attending NYU.
3a. IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET
TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO
DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I
have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making
them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic
slurs for urban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time
efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot
bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook
thirty-minute brownies in twenty minutes.
I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly
defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious
army ants.
I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of
numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension
bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hand gliding. On
Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of
charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie.
Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening
wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan
mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes.
Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force
demonstration. I bat 400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international
botany circles. Children trust me.
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly
accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield
in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that
evening.
I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I
have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I can sleep
once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation
in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who
had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On
weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami.
Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it
down.
I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a
toaster oven.
I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan,
cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the
Kremlin.
I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have
spoken with Elvis.
But I have not yet gone to college.
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My compliments to Admissions at NYU.
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But I have not yet gone to college. It reminds me of a history teacher I once had. On tests you would get zero for a wrong answer, but you could get a couple humor points if you manage to make the answer interesting. Ali
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Dear Bridget96: I'll bet that "haven't been to college yet" could write a sensational resume after he graduated.
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could write a sensational resume after he graduatedBut having written a novel, the poor schmuck is still known for his hilarious NYU paper
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Dear Seian: Your mention of getting some credit for humor on an exam question reminds me of Bob Benchley, a well known humorist in the 30's. At Harvard he took a course that he thought would be a snap, but because he hardly cracked a book, he was totally at a loss when exam had a question about a controversial fishing treaty.
So his answer began: "Much has been said about the views of the fishermen involved. I propose to discuss it from the viewpoint of the fish........"
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... which reminds me of the story ...
of the Professor who was irritated by a student who continued to write in his blue book after the Prof had announced the end of the exam period. The student finally finished what he was writing and took it to the front of the classroom, where the Prof had all the other blue books piled on the table. The Prof said that he would not accept the blue book because it had been turned in late. The student huffed, and asked, "Don't you know who I am?" The Prof replied, "I don't know and I don't care who you are." And the student quickly scattered the pile of blue books, inserted his into the mess, and ran out of the room.
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In reply to:
Bob Benchley, a well known humorist in the 30's. At Harvard he took a course that he thought would be a snap, but because he hardly cracked a book, he was totally at a loss when exam had a question about a controversial fishing treaty.
So his answer began: "Much has been said about the views of the fishermen involved. I propose to discuss it from the viewpoint of the fish........"
Wasn't Jaws written by somebody called Benchley?
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Wasn't Jaws written by somebody called Benchley?
Peter.
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>Wasn't Jaws written by somebody called Benchley?
Peter.
So this thread is petering out too!
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I can't resist bragging on my home town for this. In our paper today, there is an article that is a follow-up to one that appeared last week, about a family with a terminally-ill father. They were asking for people to donate frequent-flyer miles, so they could take their 6-year-old to Disney World for one last thing for her to remember about her Dad. This article said to contact the Dream Foundation, which is based in California, 3 hours behind us in time zones. Today's article said that, within two hours of their office opening the day that first article appeared, they had enough and more. The director said she's never seen anything like it, and that she just might move to Louisville. http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/03/05/ky_drem.htmlAbout three years ago, right after a terrible snowstorm, word went out on the airwaves that a donor organ had become available for a four-year-old from here, but that the plane to fly her to it couldn't leave. People turned out in droves with their snow shovels, and cleared the runway, and that child and her tearful father were out of here. I've been told that got written up in one of the Chicken Soup books. I think I live in a pretty neat place.
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Jackie, the stories of Louisville brought a happy tug at my heartstrings.
I hope you are all ok out there!
For those outside the North East of USA, we got socked with a March BLIZARD yesterday and overnight ... it's 9 a.m. and still snowing.
About two feet to three of heavy, wet snow along the North East seacoast complicated by high winds (60 to 70 mph) overnight and full moon high tide this morning.
All coastal roads from Boston, Mass. to Portland Maine are closed or passable only by emergency equipment. Schools all closed. Mass universities on spring break. Many NH colleges closed.
The easterly winds blowing in the high tide waters over seawalls and once there the water's trapped. Sewers and catch basins will eventually take care of water but only in stops-and-starts as the water can't go anywhere when tides are coming in.
In some areas north of Boston they have removable sections of seawalls to compensate for storm surges but, all in all, it's a mess. Cape Cod is only area that escaped heavy snow.
In my yard I have a park bench -- the kind with wrought iron ends and wooden slat seat and back -- it is completely covered in snow even though it's sheltered by the garden shed. Trees and all branches all snowy from trunks to tips.
Only happy people are the teenagers who will make some major money shovelling people out!
My son came to plow a swipe in driveway (at about 5 a.m.) and the dear one also shovelled the path to my front door.
Poor pup Pearl couldn't get out to her fenced back yard as the snow had packed the doorstep and I can't get door open! So she peed on the shovelled path, giving me a bewildered look over her shoulder!
Some of our community conscious men are shovelling around the water hydrants just in case of fire emergency.
Well, I am in for today and probably tomorrow as well! All stocked up with food and beverages so I am cozy as we have heat and (obviously) electric ... so we're better of than some folk.
Finally, storm bad enough to cause the shut down of Seabrook Nucler Power Plant.That's a helluvalot of snow!
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P.S. It's now almost 11 a.m. -- no telephone for about an hour half. Still snowing!
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Wow, while a huge load of snow is a nuisance, at least you got what you expected. Here in Baltimore the prediction started at 2 feet of snow, later revised to 12 to 15 inches. All the supermarkets were sold out of bread, milk and toilet paper in short order (which always happens when there is a prediction of snow, no matter how little), and the hardware stores sold out of snow shovels. What actually happened was about a half inch of very wet snow on top of a half inch of slush -- we had rain for 24 hours and snow for about 2. As of this morning, it's all gone and the sun is shining.
While I am heartly giving thanks at being rescued from having to shovel snow (a perilous undertaking for an old geezer with a dicky heart), I am also greatly enjoying the discomfiture of all the TV weathermen who were unanimous in giving out with the information that this was going to be a major snow event and no mistake possible (they had to say that because they gave out with a similar false prediction earlier this winter.)
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When it comes to predicting weather for the NH coast I pay attention to Al Kaprelian, weather forecaster for a small TV station ... Al gets it right when most of the network's hot shots are floundering. To keep track of what's what around here, http://www.wndsweather.com then click on forecast. My congrats on missing the snow. Lucky dog! wow
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My congrats on missing the snow. Lucky dog!
I am quite glad that I have never lived anywhere that receives snow. In winter, I can see plenty of it from an aesthetically and climatically pleasing distance, but the most interesting stuff to come out of the sky where I live is volcanic ash, and that hasn't happened for three years now. Y'all can keep your cold wet white stuff, if y'all don't mind.
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We're just seeing the end of the largest snowfall in Scotland for forty years. We haven't had much snow since we've been here so we were quite surprised at not being able to get out last Tuesday. The schools were only closed for one day, so it wasn't too bad. Fortunately we were away skiing in Scotland for part of last week, which was great as the ski resorts here aren't as high as those in the Alps, North America or New Zealand and don't have a great snow record. They have closed some areas and there is restricted access to the countryside now to help prevent Foot and Mouth disease, so we were lucky that we got away when we did.
My next door neighbour is furious about the snow. Having lived in Canada for a few years he decided to buy a four wheel drive (SUV for Us'ns). After three years of it not being needed (and being too high to fit through the garage door) he got rid of it, just in time for the snow. He looked so funny, digging out the Porsche!
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Dear jmh, (Jo) Oh, my. Are you all prepared for big snow as we are here in New Hampshire ... in all New England ... huge snow movers and snow blowers et.al.?
It's Wednesday and schools still closed (day two) and we had another five inches overnight here on NH Seacoast.
Sunshine tomorrow ... forecaster Al promised. But more snow expected on Friday. Yuk!
At least it's March and Spring coming soon, sun becoming warmer!
As the Mayor of Cambridge (Massachusetts) said when he received complaints about the snow and ice on the city's roads "God put it here and God will take it away."
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Dear wow: The Mayor of Cambridge may have said that, but I think he was copying Jim Curley, Mayor of Boston in either l946 or 47. I vas dere. There were potholes you could hide a suitcase in for a week, before the Almighty decided to turn it into ankle deep slush.
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wwh : I bow deeply in your directions ... For those who may remember the book and subsequent movie, "The Last Hurrah" was loosely based on Mayor Curley. Spencer Tracey played the lead.
Curley was a consummate politician and he did a lot of good things. People loved him to the point they re-elected him Mayor of Boston while he was in jail!
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My family was always Republican, but I had to admire some of Mayor Curley's good deeds. He found a way to use a bequest that no previous mayor had. He built several health centers where many poor people could get immunizations, Xrays and other medical attention available nowhere else.
Curley did more for Boston than any of his critics.
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Be alert...........the world needs more lerts.
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No. The world needs more loofs - be aloof.
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Fact is, it's pathetics who are a dying breed. So be apathetic. the sunshine warrior
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If you can't be aloof, be half a loof. Half a loof is better than none.
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i was going to take this thread and run with it, but i'm afraid i'm at the end of my tether
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But how long is the tether, how much slack is there, and who's holding it?
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i'd have to return to the other end of my tether to answer those questions. at risk of repeating myself, that may be stretching things
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No, No, NO! The world definitely needs more level heads and more morals. Be ahead of your time and become amoral!
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the thing that has helped me most in life is a small round disk i have, with TUIT printed on it.
Once i got it, i was able to accomplish so much more in life! I hope you're able to find one-- and then you be about to do all those things that keep waiting till you get a round to it.!
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do all those things that keep waiting till you get a round to it.!
Dug out my old TUIT button and since I started this thread I ask that we end it here and
go to Non-Word Stuff #3 Post it here
as this is getting way toooo long.
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