J0nny Ling0

Hey thanks Mo! Cute! I just had my nine year old boy do the puzzle thing too. And, when I first read the title to this thread, I thought; Uh oh! Sounds like Mo's been drinkin! You know; "I love Everybody right now!" But I'm just saying that the title kinda sounded that wasy I am sure that you are as sober as a judge...And so, Merry Christmas and may your New Year be joyous. And don't freeze up there in Anchortow, Down here in Juneau it is stil the usual "rainy and 34 degrees" which basically means wet, cold, and miserable...

Thought you all might get a kick out of this article. It is VERY "on topic". Kinda funny too... Santas Go On Rampage in New Zealand Saturday, December 17, 2005 WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus costumes, many of them drunk, rampaged through New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores and assaulting security guards, police said Sunday. The rampage, dubbed "Santarchy" by local newspapers, began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty. She said the men then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage containers, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on buildings. One man climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship before being ordered down by the captain. Other Santas, objecting when the man was arrested, attacked security staff, Hegarty said. The remaining Santas entered a downtown convenience store and carried off beer and soft drinks. "They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," store owner Changa Manakynda said. Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the group, said Santarchy was a worldwide movement designed to protest the commercialization of Christmas.

I am not connected with any splinter group. I have friends who are, and we communicate all the time. But, I have no "ministry" anymore. I am connected with an old friend, a gal who has been going through some very trying times, and I have been teaching her what I know about God's love for us, His forgiveness through Jesus Christ our lord, and about trusting the promises of God. And, she has been devouring it. I'd love for her to be able to fellowship with likeminded believers, but, I would surely hate to see her fall into the hands of some really religious bunch that gets all legalistic and that. And so, I haven't tried to direct her toward any group of people. I will just have to trust God that whatever I may be doing to help her will be enough to help her to pray and believe God to direct her to wherever He wants her to be. And so, if this is a continuation of "a ministry", then this is all I am about these days.. JL

From my Dad if I was standing in the way of the TV; "Jonny, even though you are a pain, you don't make a very good window" And, when he was being "humourous"; "Jonny? You're good for two things: Good for nothin and no good at all..."

Hi, I am Keanu, the son of Jonny Lingo. I'm eighteen Here are some terms we use: dude. We say this a lot. Like dude what are you doin? Late. Instead of later or goodbye. Badass. equivilant to cool or swell. As in, That's badass! If its a good song or something. Gay. doesnt mean homosexual. slang for undesirable. like, thats so gay. Kind of like you old guys used to say uncool or square. What up? My dad gives me crap alot for saying like. He always says like, "did you have like a good time or did you have a good time? Well, thats all. Late, Keanu

Hokay Cool Chef, it is in the mail as we speak. I sent it priority mail and should be there (according the the USPS) in 2-3 days. but, since to day is Friday, it's more likely to show up on Monday or Tuesday. Plus, you and I live in two the more remote states... Anyhoo, enjoy!

And ya know, as an aside, when the "mast crop" is really styrong in the summer and fall, in the deep oak woods, you can count on large antlers on the deer. A "mast crop" you might ask? Well, that means acorns. Deer love 'em, and, it helps their antlers grow big and strong. "In fact, if a buck deer fails to eat just one acorn during the summer season, he will now be able to grow antlers for three years!"

Why, HCW, that was excellent! But, didn't you all have hamburgers in Ye Olde Snacke Shoppe down in the Firkin Lounge? We did, every Sunday night, and they were real burgers. That was a Sunday Night Service tradition that came on down from HQ. You know, how old "Tick" would steal kids' hamburgers and that? Granted they weren't MacDonalds burgers, but they were good. I remember making sure all week long that I would have enough dough to be able to buy two hamburgers and a bag of popcorn that coming Sunday night. I always loved a mouthful of burger and a mouthful of popcorn at the same time. Many wimmin thought I was a heathen pig, but little did I care during one of those glorious moments! For, as you said; "A burger!" And, oh yes, I truly lived for them. There was even mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, and onions to put on them. And being in the Tenth Corps like Garland, which was a year before your time, I would have thought that there were burgers on sunday night for you guys too? In fact I know there were burgers on Sunday night during my last year in rez with the 12th Corps. Maybe I was just so hungry I thought they were real burgers? Ahh, but that musta been really nice sneaking off to Mickey Dee's like that. Funny too that JAL stumbled upon you and you were "taken in the midst of the act of eating real food. The very act!!" And yet forgiven...Didn't he say "go and sin no more"?

"As Mama would say"? Well then maybe there is somthin wrong with Mama's Medulla Oblongada! Haha! Now I am giving you some sh!t. No doubt yore Mama is a lovely person...And just for the record Belle, what part of the South are you from? Now, I am not asking for your physical address you foxy Southern Belle you, but, since you said; "good seafood, believe it or not, it's awfully hard to find down here", I am wondering where. The Gulf States? Or maybe it was Florida. Were you the one who started the "You know you live in FLA when...thread"? Maybe that was it. Just curious... Yeah seafood. Gotta love it. What we have an abundance of up here is of course salmon (the best being Sockeye imo), King Crab (but not always easy to come by-but I do know a few good "holes"), lots and lots of Dungeness Crab, which, really is about as good as King Crab but they are smaller is all, Tanner Crab, which are marketed as "Snow Crab" in the Lower 48, and tons of shrimp! Yes, we have Tiger Prawns, Spot Prawns, and the lesser sought after "Coon Stripe" shrimp which simply abound! Nothin "funner than pullin shrimp pots and glorying in the bounty from the sea! Right now, a shrimper friend of mine sold us thirty pounds of Spot Prawns for cheap cheap cheap. My boat is gone now, (sold it), and so, I prevail upon my commercial fishin friends for deals. Actually we act as brokers for them, and usually our "pay" is in bags of shrimp. But, outr main connection up in Haines, AK has a broken down boat, and so we had to buy from another friend. But, five of those thirty pounds are in the frideg (never been frozen), and waiting to be turned into Seafood Fettucini Alfredo, a family favorite. And we have clams, but for some reason, even though these are cold waters like Cool Chef's Maine waters, we have to be careful of "toxic shellfish poisoning"... Also, there is a really nice whitefish that lives fathoms and fathoms deep known as "Black Cod". And man, I loves smoked Black Cod which is served hot. Mmmm mmmm mmm! Okay, that's the fish report...Love you!

Jim, that is really funny. I was all alone too... Damn Galen. You must mean Rosy Palms and her Five Sisters? Yeah, wow, I've been out with her too... And man, that is a very sad commentary: "I am married, so, I have sex with rosy". But geez, what else to do? Do that, I guess, or, get a girlfriend, which is WRONG, or, go and buy a prostitute from time to time which again is WRONG, and so, what to do? Go out with Rosy I guess, and wait for that oh so wonder time when God Almighty collects us together and we get new bodies, and everything we thought about sex will probably be nothing compared to the Life we will have... But geez, just a little exciting sex from time to time, is that so wrong?

So, CC, what's the address? Maybe we should move over to the private messaging or the moderator may descend upon us in their wrath for this open talk about matters private or whatever. And, sorry Belle, but well, the only reason I am sending some to cool chef is because of his constant harrassment.... :)

Hey Cool Chef, You have to go back to the "Graveyard Thread" and read the message that I left for you there. And you'd better hurry!! JL

I would have to say that the mother seems incredibly stupid, especially in this day and age when there has been these terrible school shootings. I live in Alaska where kids used to bring their shotguns to school with ammo, keep them in their lockers all day, so that they could go straight to duck hunting immediately after school so as to capitalize on the limited winter sunlight in this state. But sadly, this can't happen anymore. I don't like it, but, with all of the fear from the insane school shootings, I guess they gotta do something. And because of this, I have made sure that my kids watch their mouths about our guns (no jokes about having them in school for instance), and don't take a pocket knife to school, etc. And yet here is a teacher who doesn't take the precaution to make sure that little Jonny checked his gun at the door before he left home for school... But I will agree that things concerning precautionary measures have spun out of control. We had this kid in Haines, Alaska who brought a plastic toy gun that spat out little rubber bouncy bb's, and when some girl ratted him out, the cops were called, the kid was arrested while in the middle of class, and he was taken to jail! Yeah, he spent the whole afternoon in jail until his Mom or Dad could be contacted. There was a big old flap about it in town, and of course the "concerned ones" were the local Libs who insisted that the cops did the right thing by arresting this fifteen year old boy, because, they said, "We don't want another Colombine in this town and we have to have a zero tolerance attitude towards firearms and weapons!" Oh why oh why can't cops and people simply judge a situation as an individual situation and just act logically accordingly? But nooo, they had to follow the new "zero tolerance guidelines" and arrest this boy as a criminal. Hell, the kid was/is a friend of my daughter's and he is no more a criminal than my daughter. He was just being a highschool boy. Mis-guided in this case, now that we have the hind sight, but, now he has a criminal record because of a spring loaded pea-shooter? Man, what total and complete unadulterated bull s h it! Unfortunately, this mom/teacher in this Pennsylvania case was unable to be wise with her son....

Umm, the Daddy Long legs thing is another myth. I had heard that claim once in the past and looked it up and found it to be false. In this case, because I was being a smart aleck, I typed up what I wrote and just made it up along the way. But, I have provided a link that is not www.urbanegends.com (the myth is exposed there also though), but rather a different site about spiders. Here ya go, check it out.. http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html JL

No, things were not at all that rigid when I was in. Not "allowing people to have the blessing of making coffee for you"? What a crock! But, I believe you. I think things were tending toward this kind of legalism the last two years I was in the process of checking out. But some of the things I have heard by folks who stayed through the nineties just blows my mind. Like having your TC go through your finances to make sure you are abs'ing, and monitoring your twig attendance, etc... I mean, when we ran twigs back in the day (mid 70's-mid 80's), if some one didn't show for twig, it would be more like; "Hey, we haven't seen so and so for awhile, I wonder what's up?" And then I or one of us in twig would give 'em a call and go see how they were doing. And so in that way I guess we "monitored" attendance, but at least for me, like I was taught (and this was straight from VPW), if a person is faithful by coming to twig once a month or once every two months, then that is faithful for him or her or them, and just praise God for it. And if they want to come every night, then praise God for that too. And that is the way I operated as a TC, or BC, as did most of my peers...

The most deadly spider in the world is the Daddy Long Legs, with poison eight times more powerful than that of the deadly Gaboon Viper and the Black Mamba. The only reason there have been no reported fatalities from the deadly Daddy Long Legs, is because it's mandibles (jaws) are so tiny that they cannot even pierce a human's skin, let alone even get a hold of it...

Did JAL ever ask in his Richard Pryor voice from that Richard Pryor comedy routine; "How lllooong is this bulls h it gonna be goin on!!!?? With us in the Tenth, he had played that comedy tape for us a time or two, and at times he would ask that question of us when we were too loud, and we would all errupt in hilarity. And then, as time would go on, we reversed it on him. When he would go on and on at a meal, and be serious about whatever, somebody "in the back" (usually J*y W*ls*n, one of our resident funny guys), would inevitably yell out; "How loooonnggg!!?? And JAL would stop, try to be mad, while three or four more "How Longs?!" would permeate through all of the laughter, and, JAL would finally give it up, toss his microphone in the air, and laugh too. Lots of fun, that. He really was a pretty funny guy. I was never let into his inner sanctum though, and I am glad of that...

Yeah HCW, ExCath, like college. I'd been a highschool drop out in the tenth grade and run off and joined the Merchant Marines. And so, I missed out on all of the high school stuff. And so, being in the Tenth Corps was for me college and highschool combined. I mean, I really had a fun time when we (our twig) were "sentenced" to sleep in the empty pool over at Allen Gymn. Hell, all we did was be funny and laugh all night about it. One time, I snuck a small catfish that I had caught (when we drained the pond) into the big huge aquarium at the campus center (wasn't that what it was called, where we ate?), and it went on a wild rampage and started eating all of the pretty little tropical fish while a bunch of guys were standing around watching and going; "Ooo! Aah!" as the mayhem progressed. I fully excpected to be busted for that, but later under the cover of darkness, St*ve Lowd*er and I (he had put me up to it, and he was a rev) snuck in there with a flashlight, careful not to wake up anyone in the Martindale apartment,and netted that miscreant catfish and threw him back into the pond... Yes, that may have been my biggest prank, which really wasn't much. But I had great times with so many many of those folks. Ya know, I just did not see the wicked underbelly that many of you saw. But I do believe now that it was there...

Funny though, I haven't heard back from him yet...

Well then Tom, iif it is a sin, may our Hevenny Father forgive you. And hey, cantcha just see him standing there with his hands on his hips like that? I forgot the cowboy hat and the freshly starched "dungarees" and plaid snap shirt... And thank you Raf... And so, this thing has been an interruption of the thread of TheMex. And so, withour further rambling, I will also say El Mex, that I also learned to try and read the Word of God with out a careless attitude. That was a good thing. Also, and I was just talking about this this morning with my eighteen year old son about the part of PFAL which was to me and still is rather cool. And that is the part about "punctuation being devoid of authority", and how with a simple comma, a whole new doctrine can be derived from the same verse of scripture. For instance, when Jesus was on the cross and said to the other dying man to his side; "Verily I say unto you today shalt thou be with me in paradise" And as you know, with the commas, it reads this way; "Verily I say unto you, today, shalt thou be with me in paradise" Which many ministers have read it this way and then taught that when you die, you go straight to heaven like the way Jesus promised the guy next to him on the cross. But when you take the commas out, which were not there in the first place, it just reads nice and simply, and fits with other verses that speak of "the dead knowing nothing", and that "there is no wisdom nor knowledge nor device in the grave withersoever thou goest"-Ecc 9:10 And so, by the way, I am not trying to get you or anyone else here to agree with this, or even like it. I am just telling you that this is something that I liked and enjoyed that I learned in The Way, as per your question in the thread topic. On the same subject of punctuation, there is also the verse in Acts where Paul wanted to go to Jerusalem and God didn't want him to go, and finally the believers, without any punctuation said; "And when Paul would not be persuaded, we ceased (stopped) saying the will of the Lord be done" Without the commas, the verse is clear as a bell, and is the culmination of the scripture buildup prior to it. God did everything to get Paul to turn back, but nope. He wanted to go, did so, and ended up in prison for the rest of his days, and his ministry was curtailed greatly, and the churches in gentile land began to fall apart and head back into idolatry. But with the commas, the very insidious doctrine that "God puts His people through trials and tribulations so why bother asking for help?" can be, in a very weak manner, substantiated by reading it like this; "And when Paul would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, the will of the lord be done" In other words; "Oh Paul we don't want you to go there, but the Lord does, so, go out and do the will of the Lord". And now, many may think that VP was taking too much latitude by saying that people have read it that way to prove that God puts us through trials and tribs as he did the apostle Paul, and I actually wondered if ministers had actually done this when I heard this teaching. But I just figured that since I had never been around any particular Christian doctrine, and VP had been a church minister before, that this was something he'd heard over the years, and so I believed him. But, and get this: One time I was flying from Anchorage to Juneau, and ended up sitting next to a guy who was some sort of a Christian Church minister here in Juneau. This was back in the 1982, and I had my bible out and was reading it as we flew down from Anchortown. And so, we got to talking, and I must have brought up the belief (currently a belief I still hold) that God does not hurt us or test us to teach us a lesson. He disagreed, but, I showed him the verse that says that "God cannot be tempted with sin, neither tempteth he any man..." And amazingly, he came back with this; "Well, God tempted the Apostle Paul, and he was a prayerful man!" And I asked; "What do you mean; God tempted the Apostle Paul?" And he asked for my bible and opened it to Acts, and read that record about Paul going to Jerusalem, and when he read that verse, very clearly punctuated the place where the commas are, saying; "And when Paul would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, the will of the lord be done", and declared that this was proof that God was behind Paul's imprisonment, even though Paul was a prayerful man. And there it was, just as I'd been told about the manner in which people utilize this verse to prove that God is weird and mysterious and puts us through trying times, sickness, and death. And so, I just had the grandest time pointing out to this man that there were no comma's or punctuation in the Greek from whence it came, and, he ended up, after initial shock, very very delighted by it. He went on to say, that; "If what I had showed him was true, then this would make a major change in the way he thought about God and healing, and that it would be very exciting to teach it to his congregation. And so ElMex, this is something that for me, one of the good things The Way did for me, teaching me that. There may very well be someone else who reads this post and says; "Oh, you are just suffering from "Waybrain" Juanny, or; "So, maybe that is true, but you could have learned it in any number of churches", or "Wierwille stole that information!" or any number of things. But, it is in The Way where I learned it, and at that time in my life, these were great things to learn...

Muchos gracias ElMex. Yo comprendo la pallabra "abrazo" estoy. Y, egualmente! Or, same to ya!

Hi Doojable. I was in the Tenth Corps too. I used to have a white 1966 Plymouth Valiant with a car top box on it with a set of deer antlers on it, which became known as the "Deer Mobile" to some, particularly to the Robert Kri*bel crowd. It also had my trademark "aoogah" horn. Maybe you remember it and me? And maybe not...

And, you've been stalking me haven't you Tom TUT-tle? And yes, I have been Spanglishing! There I've said it, it's out in the open now. And yes, the cat is very red... And so, what does the word "abrazo" mean in English?

Wow, Thanks for thr reply Socks. Yeah, I have really been behind the times on a lot of things, but, I trust your report. But man oh man, that boys' fingers could fly! And with "taste" too, as I call it. No doubt he is "paying his price" for his fame, but he was nice to listen to... And hey, I have a son who is a budding guitarist. He has ac heap piece of crap Yamaha Strat copy that he plays the hell out of, but he doesn't know where to go "next". He's playing all of these manic heavy metal licks, with the "drop D" thing goin on, and, his fingers and rythym are really really good. But with me being "an old guy", I think I would like him to learn some more basics and such. Like the blues and such, where rock 'n roll came from. I know that you are an actual guitarist, whereas, I am not. I do play the guitar, but I am in no way an actual guitarist like yourself. Do you do any "online comunication thing" like hotmail or "myspace.com? He has his own site there, and I told him that you are an absolute master and that you'd be able to, at the very least, be able to give him some insight.... Anyhoo, take care Socks, JL :)

Ya know CoolChef, you use that "beer clinking" emoticom alot. Do you like to drink beer? Do you like to drink beer with Wild Caught Alaskan Smoked Coho Salmon? Mmmm mmmm mmm! Now wouldn't that be nice for the holiday season, hmmm? Well, you have coerced me. Give me your snail mail address via this forum or via private messaging, and I will send you, my GSCafe bruthah, some really excellent smoked Coho. I mean it. I would be blessed to do it CoolChef. But, the only stipulation is that you have to brag about it on this forum, or, the deal is off! Sincerely, Jonny Lingo