J0nny Ling0

My first kiss was with Kasia Johnson. She was a 7th Grader like me, and we were at our first 7th Grade dance. She had frizzy strawberry blonde hair, was a thin girl, but very intelligent as well as very sweet. "Sweet" has always been important to me in a woman, and it is no surpise to me now, looking back, that Kasia had been my First Kiss. I had already seen friends making out in the hallways, but I had never kissed before. To me, it was a mystery as to how to get a girl to actually do that with me. It seemed like an impossibility as I watched various friends and new acquaintences as the song "Color My World" by Chicago drew them together to slow dance and, as if on cue, start making out at the same time. Everybody but me and Kasia that is. We danced, and I held her close, but, I was afraid to try and kiss her. I think she was afraid too. And so, after a few of more songs like "Hit The Road Jack", Honky Tonk Woman", and "I'm A Man" also by Chicago, I held her hand and walked her over to that most excellent make out spot: The gymnastics mat pile in the darkened corner! And we sat down. And then I turned to her, looked her in the eyes, and kissed her lips tenderly as she, trembling a bit, kissed back. All we did was press our lips together at first, but then I opened my mouth a bit, and to my surprise, she slipped her delicate tongue into my mouth and began to tickle my tongue with it. And, I responded in kind. And, my breathing became deeper and so did hers as I leaned her back onto the mats so that we were laying down with my leg draped over her thigh. And man were we kissing!It was pure heaven! And we were getting hotter and hotter and I began to grind myself into her thigh and we were really really lost in it man, I'm telling you! And as we slid deeper into ecstacy, there was the sharp "thump thump" of a heavy finger on my shoulder, breaking into our small bit of heaven on earth. I turned in alarm thinking it was one of my friends, but nooo! It was Mr. Musson the shop teacher! And he seemed rather angry as he wagged his big index finger in our faces and told us to "sit up and stop that!" And so, with the moment ruined, we sat up, but waited for our opportunity to kiss again. And kiss we did, but only while sitting up. And I gave her some Eskimo kisses that my Mom had shown me when I was little, as well as some butterfly kisses, much to her delight. It was a night to remember. Geez....Seventh Grade, 13 years old, our whole lives ahead of us, budding hormones and an air of discovery and innocence still within....Seems so long ago, yet I remember it like yesterday.....Like Strawberry Wine....Where did it all go?

I believe that verse four is simply saying that the meat should be drained of blood. The strict Muslims are very good at preparing meat this way, and probably the Orthodox Jews too, although I have not heard of what they do. Well have to ask Abigail on that one. I know that I make sure to hang any wild game and make sure that it is bled out before cutting and wrapping. But as we know, we don't always get what we want at the supermarket. I don't have time now, but I have a sort of funny but sort of ghastly tale to tell about my uncle in law who is a cattle rancher in Texas, and one of the things I saw at his feedlot. But for now, I have to be going to work. Have a great day, and love you too Vegan!! Jonny Lingo

Have a Happy White Dove!! Jonny Lingo

Hey! Happy Birfday Cowgirl!!!

Aww geez Cool, I am so sorry about that. I do know just how hard it is to have a friend who loses a son. And ya know, I remember reading that that plane went down, but, it happens so often up here, that I just thought; "Damn, another plane down and another Family shattered..." I had no idea that I would learn of a connection between me and one of my friends. And, you are a friend Brother, and I will still pray for you and your friend and your families....Vaya Con Dios, JL

No problem! I cook up Dungeness crab all the time live. But what is amazing to me is that you will ship them live? Cool! Dungies are great, because they are way bigger than blue crabs, and very plentiful here. In fact, there is a veritable army of them right off the docks of our salmon hatchery where we pump the grindings of the played out salmon once we harvest the eggs and sperm to start the hatching of baby salmon. And some of the guys who dive out there to move or unclog our grinder line say that there is a ton of crab, as well as lots of big halibut. The motto of the MaCauley Salmon hatchery where I work is "Enough To Go Around", and this even includes the crabs, the halibut, the local minks (I see them every morning, the thieving little buggers! They steal the fingerlings from this one "net pen"!), and also the local seals and sea otters. Everybody gets a piece of the pie, including the bears, the eagles, commercial fishermen, the ravens, seagulls, the Japanese (they love the caviar) and all the way up and down the line. I really do dig working at a place that has such a positive impact...

Damn, Scooterpop, I am absolutely starving! I'd love a big slab of prime rib right now myself! That and some asparagus spears with hollandaise sauce, and a big ol Idaho baked potato with lots of butter, sour cream, chives, salt, pepper, and some Spike. And some dinner rolls of some sort. And all the while drinking a frosty mug or two of Alaskan Amber beer! And what would make it all better would be if Cool Chef did the honors by preparing it... I'll bet you do a nice prime rib, dontcha CoolChef? And hey, Scooterpop, I understand about being preached at by those who believe that their way of life is better than my own. I don't like it one bit. But, it didn't quite seem that Vegan was doing that....Anyhoo, cheers all! And oh yeah, because I know that alot of the food we eat came from alot of places, we too ask God to bless our food, because there is just no way to know everything that is going on in the "food world....."

Now now Scooterpop, our Thread Author has not been militant at all. And discussion of the subject is just fine. And when it comes to meat, there really is some bad things done to it during processing that is well worth becoming knowledgeable about....

I know that chemicals in meat, and growth hormones are not good for you. This is why I do my best to kill and eat wild game. Up here in Alaska, I am allowed four deer a year, and I have the opportunity to hunt by proxy for the elderly. I split the meat from a deer with those whom I hunt for. The Sitka Blacktailed deer is very tasty in that they eat the most succulent of tender green vittles found in our temperate rain forest. No "sage brush mule deer" fer sher. And, I am not a carnivore, I am an omnivore, and I am thankful that God or Nature (to whomever you pay homage) gave me bicuspid teeth, which of course were designed for cutting into meat. Now, on the subject of dogs. I have known of many a carnivorous dog to live into their upper twenties. Seems like the littler the dog, the longer they live. Big dogs just do not seem to have the longevity of the littler ones. And, interesting that you brought up the vegan dog thing. My wife and I used to run a boarding kennel for dogs, and we got to know many many wonderful pooches. But there was this one vegan gal who used to bring in her three dalmatians who were also "vegans". But I do not believe that these dogs had any choice in the matter. She had us feed them rice, apples, and carrots. And scarf them up they did! (they were probably hungry all the time). And, these dogs made our lives as kennel operators most miserable. Because these dogs always had the runs and they shat all over their kennel run inside and out. And their slop would also run into the neighboring dogs' kennel run as well, which wasn't really too fair to the other paying customers. And of course, due to the nature of their mess, we would have to hose the kennel deck, which meant that there was a lot of wetness for the dogs and the neighboring dogs to deal with. Not cool in the winter, even though we had a heated slab. And, the gal who owned them would always leave them with us for weeks at a time. And each time that she returned, she would blame their loose bowels on the fact that they were just "nervous" from being left at the kennel. But geez their messes were just disgusting. Well finally, after she left them with us on about the fourth time, against my wifes' wishes, I fed those dogs some Science Diet meat protein dog food, and, they loved it. And, after two days, their stools firmed up, and they did not crap nearly as much anymore, and I was so relieved, as was my wife. And, I did get busted by my wife when she noticed that the dogs were happier, and not strittling their foul excrement all over their kennel run anymore, but rather were leaving a "normal pile". But, she also approved. And they quit barking and whining like they normally did too. And then, when we would get word that the woman would be coming back, a few days before the scheduled pick up, I'd put them back on their rice/apples/carrots diet so that they would be their "normal", miserable, foul smelling selves in time for the lady to take on home. And so, I wasn't inmpressed. I think dogs decended from wolves, and I know that our very healthy wolf population up here just thrives on torturing and then eating still living moose until they are dead and consumed. Oh yeah, I saw a video clip of some wolves killing a moose. It took them three days to kill this tortured moose, and they began to feed on her even while she (it was a cow moose) was still alive. She fought valiantly, but in the end, they got her. Really sad for me, because I am kind of a "mush", and wanted her to stomp all of those wolves to death, or at least get away. I have also seen a video of a wolf helping a mother caribou "give birth". Yup, that old wolf just snatched up that youngun as it was coming into this old world. Tender vittles, that... Personally, when I kill any game, I always pray to God for "one shot, one kill", and I pray that the crittur be dead before I get up to it. And, I have been successful at this. I do not squeeze off a round until I know that I have the deer or moose in the kill zone of my scope. And boom! Badabing! Down they go, and a heck of a lot faster than the way those damned wolves do it anyway. A well placed bullet is way more humane than fangs, or an arrow.... Ya know, I think it is wonderful if a person wants to be a vegan. But just like alot of things, they should keep it to themselves or at least not "preach it", unless asked for more info once the subject comes up... :)

Yeah, and where's that Naughty RottieGirrl? Maybe she finally did go on down to Heidi Fleiss's Stud Ranch, and just decided to stay?

Speaking of "hermaphrodites", are they real? Is there such a thing biologically besides some self proclaimed "chick with d***"? It is only a curious biology question. I ask because there was a gal in my Corps who had to shave her face regularly in the ladies room. And she was a really neat gal and had a heart of gold. But my heart bled for her as I thought of her in the public ladies bathroom (in Uncle Harry and Owens dorm) shaving her face while being surrounded by the cuties that were also in my corps. I actually wondered if she was a hermaphrodite. Is there really such a thing as that?

Doojable!!! You naughty girl you!!

Ya know Lindy, I used to live in Kenai, and so, I made that trip up to and back from Anchorage many a time. Do you remember the "bore tides" of Turnagain Arm? Not only will there be a twelve foot tidal change in one day, but some times three to six feet of it will come in all at once in the form of a continous steady wave! A true "tidal wave", if you will. I have pictures of it, for I drove along side one when we were coming back from Anchorage once. I even took pictures. I think that people have actually surfed the bore tides of Turnagain Arm. Purdy dang cool. And, folks, for those who do not know, it is called "Turnagain" because when driving to and from Anchorage, one must drive an hour one way to the very eastern terminous of that "Arm" of the Cook Inlet, "turn again" back west and drive another hour in the opposite direction, making a one hour drive from Kenai to Anchorage a three hour drive. Purdy drive though, with Mountain Goats easily sited along the north wall. http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Surfing%20Boar%20Tide.htm A "blurb on bore tides: Northern Lights News Spring/Summer 2005 - 2006 Bore Tide Turnagain Arm displays a fascinating natural phenomenon, a true tidal wave known as a bore tide that occurs when a rising tide enters a narrow and shallow basin. The Turnagain Arm bore tide can attain heights up to six feet and speeds of 10-to 15-miles per hour. Recently, extreme sports enthusiasts have taken to surfing the bore tides. Note: The bore tide can be dangerous. To be safe, stay out of the water and away from the shore shortly after low tide. And we used to go down to Seward for the Fourth Of July, and so we 've driven that one too. And down to Homer? You've driven down to there? And what is that one, the Sterling Highway? Can't quite remember. One thing's for sure, when you drive anywhere on the Kenai Peninsula, watch out for the moose! I hit one just down the hill from Cooper Landing on the flats, and, she wrecked my car (that 79 T-Bird), but then she also walked away. Yeah, I went back to shoot her and put her out of her misery, but her tracks simply moved off through the snow. Thankfully, we were unharmed. We didn't hit a moose, a moose hit us!

I wasn't kidding when I said she was my wife!

Most of the AlCan is paved now, but every summer, the only time to work on it, there are gravel detours while they work on the main stretch. Seems like it is mostly in Canadia where the work is always going on. Since my first time, which was in a 1966 Plymouth Valiant Signet (I kid you not! With the 225 slant six!), I haven't had to wait more than a couple of hours. But my first time, near Liard Hot Springs, I did have to wait 3/4s of a day. And so, I just went to the hot springs and soaked and watched the girls, some of them nekked! Yahoo! I love that kind of wild life too!

Damn! It wouldn't play because I had to download some "plug in" thing!! Sure sounds like a neat car wash though! :)

And, by the way, how can I leave out the AlCan Highway? The AlCan is the Alaska/Canada Highway. I have driven it from mile zero at Dawson Creek all the way to Fairbanks. Many sections of the AlCan at the time I first drove it were in fact gravel stretches for hundreds of miles at a time. But it was big and wide, and at times I hit 85 mph on the gravel in my 79 T-Bird. Anyway, there is nothing like the AlCan. I have seen thousands of caribou along the road and crossing it too, while I had to wait for them, and I have seen moose, wolves, coyotes, ptarmigan, grouse, black bear and grizzlies too. And one time, incredibly, in the dead of winter, close to Destruction Bay near the banks of Kluane Lake (pronounced Kloo-wan-ee), we came across two wolverines fighting in the middle of the road! They didn't even stop fighting as we rolled up next to them and rolled down our windows! And finally, they stopped, looked up at us as if to say; "What?!" Then one of them scrambled up the embankment to the left, and the other ran in the direction we were going along side of us and then finally scrambled up the embankment. It was too cool! It has been said that many people have lived in Alaska and have still never seen a wolverine. And there it was, my wife, all my kids and I all saw these two fighting in the snow in the middle of the road, and they were only three feet away! Too cool. And to think that I had a video cam right there on the console, but I was too dumbfounded to use it, it was such a sight. Yup, the AlCan is one road not to miss fore shore! Nuttin like it! http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/akhwy.html

Just north of the DC Beltway one can pick up River Road, on the Maryland side, which winds along the Potomac River until it dead ends after about an hour and a halfs drive north. A beautiful and scenic drive, with a pass through the opulent but quaint town of Potomac, MD. Very close to the town of Potomac, there is a place on the river known as Great Falls, where there are some very awesome water falls. Not a Niagara, but very very impressive just the same. Heading north, there are number of "locks" that you can stop at which are historical sites of the locks that helped in the navigation of the C and O (Chesapeake and Ohio) Canal. The River is beautiful, as is the canal. One can hike for miles and miles and along the "tow path", and you can also camp along the way. But since this is a "drive", you can head north and stop at Swain's Lock, rent canoes and paddle the canal, or, you can stop at Violet's Lock where there is nothing official but the view, or, you can stop at Seneca Creek a little further north where there is a little shop there at Seneca Lock. Seneca Creek flows in to the Potomac there. Heading north, there is also a nice stop where the Monocacy River flows into the Potomac. The road that you turn off onto is called "Monocacy Aqueduct" because there is an aqueduct where the C and O Canal once crossed over the Monocacy. It is no longer functioning because the need is gone now, but it's construction is way cool. And, toward the end of River Road, there is the McKee Bashur Wildlife Refuge, home to many water fowl as well as quail. Just after the Wild Life Refuge, just before River road turns to gravel and eventually dead ends, there is a right turn on "Willard Road" which heads on up into the little town of Poolesville, MD. And let me tell you, Willard Road is the greatest little "dip road" that I know of. The reason it is so great for riding the dips is because it is straight, the "dips" are short but sharp little rises, and you can see if another car is coming, and when one isn't, you can mash the pedal down and just go a flyin! We used to drive out there from high school smokin dope and drinkin beer and have the best of times! None of the kids in my highschool class ever got hurt on it. And, when you get to Poolesville, you can follow the signs that will get you onto Highway 270, an interstate that takes you to the Pennsylvania line and then onto Interstate 70 which will take you all the way to Vail Pass Colorado, should you be headin that way. Or, you could head just a little north of Poolesville, and pick up Route 28 and head west past Sugar Loaf Mountain, and then on up to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. A gorgeous drive along the upper Potomac River. Fabulous small mouthed bass fishing along that way, and up around Harper's Ferry, the beautiful Shenandoah River flows into the Potomac. You could even stop in Burkittsville, the town where the movie The Blair Witch Project was filmed. If you did these drives in the Fall, obviously the beauty is enhanced by the splendor of Autumn colors... :) And, thanks for stirring up the memories! "Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, away, you rollin river.." Shoot. Brings tears to my eyes. I think I just got home sick.. :(

I liked him so much because as a kid, I collected snakes and other reptiles. When I was ten, I even caught a cotton mouth water moccasin with my bare hands. Of course, I didn't know it was a cotton mouth until after I had caught it and showed it to a few neighbor ladies. It was after that, when I showed it to my brother Miles and watched his jaw drop, that I knew I had made a mistake. My brother then informed that I was holding the second most deadly snake in America, and that we would carefully walk back to the creek without my letting loose of my grip just behind the snake's head so I could toss him into the water. Which we did, without incident. Scared the crap out of all of us! And to think that I had grabbed him by the tail when he was slipping off a log and into the water! Coulda killed me easily! but I managed to get him by the head, and God saved my goofy butt by keeping him from biting. And shoot, I had been bitten many many times by non poisonous snakes already, and I was fully prepared to be bitten anyway, but, of course, I didn't know he was a moccasin... At any rate, I always loved watching Steve Irwin, because he made a career out of doing what I loved to do as a kid, and he took his love for the Creatures all around the world and saw and handled so much more of it than a kid could dream of. So sad that it was such a fluke thing like the stingray that got him. I wonder if he knew that he'd been lanced through the heart? Bye Steve! Thanks for the memories!

Yeah....So sad.... I have always love the Creatures myself. When I was a kid, I had a veritable zoo in my basement bedroom. Turtles, frogs, snakes, a Florida gator, lizards, salamanders, and a couple of aquariums of tropical fish as well. Also an aquarium with as many of the local fish that I could find. Crawdads, tadpoles, the works. Also a pet coon, crow, muskrat, and various birds. And so, I always enjoyed the Croc Hunter, and I enjoyed turning my kids onto the show. Sad that he is gone... He was a cool cool guy.......:(

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, of Australia was killed in a diving accident when some sort of sting ray barb went through is chest! Damn, I loiked that guy! :( http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/0...rwin/index.html

Yup I was referring to the pictures. I have a friend in San Marcos, and she tells me about the geckos that run around thataway. And, she spends time on South Padre Island as well... Anyhoo, back to guitars: I surely Like 'em...I am a big Doc Watson fan, among others. I play a little, on my Guild D-50, and also on my son's Johnson resonator steel guitar. I reall like that steel guitar...

T-Bone, I am guessing that you are in Florida or maybe on the gulf coast of Texas?

And Kathy, the one lizard deal on the glass is a gecko of some sort, and the other lizard looks to be a "Fence Swift". But neither are salamanders. And T-Bone, too cool dude! I like critturs like that also. The dove peering out of the flower pot is an awesome photo as well...And I like your bass and your dog... :)

Pond, you just described running into another Ex TWI-er. I have no problem with that either. But if I meet someone who knows nothing about TWI, I see no reason to divulge it. How many times a s a Way person did a "perfectly good discussion" about God's Word get interrupted when the Trinity came up? And, were that person then to go and google The Way, then that person may begin to doubt any encouragement or counseling I may have given them. And, you may consider yourself not "powerful enough" to cause someone to stumble, but since both God and Jesus have told us via the scriptures that are not to place stumbling blocks in any one's path, then I guess it must be possible to do so. Case in point, I have been sharing the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ with a friend, a woman, who has been going through some very very troubling times. I mentioned her on the "Jon Benet" thread. I have been sharing with her about the love of God in Christ Jesus, and how Jesus Christ died for our sins, and how he was raised from the dead. I have talked with her about God's gift of holy spirit, and about being born again, and about how God does not "heap troubles" upon us to test our faith. And, she has received it wonderfully. BUT, I have made sure never to mention The Way Ministry, but I just know she would google it, and then I would have to spend oodles of time explaining things that I'd just rather not get into. And I believe THAT would interrupt any progress she has been making. I won't even send her off to a "splinter" group, for, I just want her to hear and believe the simple things of God that I have been sharing with her...