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I may have told this story once..... About five years ago my office decided to go out to lunch. I had the luck of driving with the new guy, a very young 19 year old man. On the way back I decided to stop for gas, and left a cassette playing for him, which had odds and ends of music I liked. It was an older cassette that I had just found during a recent move. I warned the young man that while I was out pumping, and the cassette was playing, that he may hear a man's voice: that is because the cassette I used was once an answering machine cassette, and I hadn't recorded over the man's message. Well, his eyes got as big as saucer's and he said, "You mean answering machines used cassette tapes!?". I nearly made him walk back.

Irregardless, he stayed faithful and out of trouble. I may not always agree with his message, but, as his life is coming to a close, I do appreciate at least one stedfast voice out of many sounding brass.

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I don't want to debate about Billy Graham: but he and his ministry have lasted decades longer than VPW, and his son is carrying on. For good or bad, money or not, millions listen and have been blessed. If you compare his ministry with, say, Jim and Tammy Baker, there's no comparison. You sound like you are repeating the TWI party line.

OK, how do you clear your cache? Should you? How often? This thread is great.

"There is comfort to speak your mind about things you didn't dare bring up in twi. There are people who understand what you experienced." And if I made add, comfort in speaking our hearts and minds about things that we could not speak of outside of this forum: the world. Couldn't touch these topics out there with a ten foot pole. I didn't come here because this is a "Christian" forum. If it had been advertised as such, quite honestly, I would have peeked and run. The fact that the forums are packed with people who still have a heart for God is comforting, but it's comforting because we have experienced many of the same things. I have tried other religious gatherings, and have never felt as comfortable. I'm just as happy to listen to anyone who has walked away from their beliefs, or admits they might not have ever been solid in the first place. It's all part of the same experience. Speaking just for me, however, I prefer not to have my engagement in this forum labeled as participating in a church, unless, as Raf suggested, it's only in the literal Greek.

"Curling is a competition between two teams with four players each. The game is played on ice, and the two teams take turns pushing a 19.1kg stone towards a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stone as close to the centre of the circles as possible. One game consists of ten "ends". An end is similar to a baseball inning. During each end, each team delivers eight stones - two stones per person. The team members deliver the stones in a set order presented to the officials before the game. The first player is known as the "lead". He/she is followed by the "second," then the "third" (also known as the "vice-skip") and finally the "skip", who is the leader of the team. Each end starts with the leads alternating throws until they have each thrown their two stones. They are followed by the seconds in the same manner, and so on. The score for the end is determined when all 16 stones have been delivered. The team that scores in an end shoots first in the next end. The team with the most points at the conclusion of ten ends is the winner." These are the Olympic rules: may be variations in other countries. I really have too much time on my hands.

I bought my modem. I did exactly as CM said: the first time I tried typing it in and couldn't get it. Then I snipped it and got right in. I did a search for "prefetch" and found it that way. P.S.: I'm very careful with downloads: actually very few, unless it's a Microsoft update or something similiar. It's a scary world out there.

You have to wonder (even in the context of the individual failings) why advantage was not taken to take the ministry to the airwaves when the popularity was high. There was probably a window of opportunity to do that, and the money would probably have come rolling in. If you would indulge my theories, I think that overtly VPW said to do so would be a "sell out": seems to me I recall his contempt for Billy Graham doing just that in his early ministry. But covertly, they all knew that they could not personally withstand the scrutiny that would surely have come. Just thinking out loud.

"The oldest artifacts from the ice sport of curling are stones, today extant but unknown, which prehistoric people slid toward a target along frozen rivers or lakes. These people may also have used primitive brooms to clear snow from the path of their sliding stones. In 1565, Holland’s Peter Breugel painted "Hunters in the Snow" and another work depicting scenes resembling modern curling. Breugel’s paintings support the premise held by some that curling originated in continental Europe. The Scots, however, are the undisputed developers and formalizers of the modern game. By 1638 curling was considered, with golf and archery (in M. H. Adamson’s poem The Muses Threnodie), to be a usual recreational pastime. After a huge growth spurt in the 19th century, curling was played by thousands in nearly every Scottish parish. The game of curling spread throughout the world through the efforts of thousands of Scottish soldiers and émigrés. In North America, curling’s origins likely date to the late 1700s. The first documented record is the founding of the Montreal Curling Club in 1807." Gotta have something to do in the winter with those frozen lakes.

Thanks, CM!

Thanks for the tip: alot of garbage accumulates in a short period. However, try as I might, I couldn't find file called Content:IE5. I cleaned out what made sense from the temp folder. Some click files (damn spammers) wouldn't delete. Which index files to keep and dispose of? You'd like there could be some auto format to clean those files on a weekly (Even daily) basis. Any clues?

Have a lot of time on your hands, do you, Mooney? Just kidding-will you do my taxes? My favorite T-Shirt-"I have PMS and a handgun.....any questions?"

I swtiched, I switched, ok? I stayed on dial up because for many years I was only home on the weekends, so it wasn't worth the expense. When I was home, the only thing I used the net for was planning the next week's trip, so it was no big deal. That situation has changed, and since finding some things offered by Greasespot, I decided to make the switch. So now I can play with the big boys. Thanks, y'all.

I must have blocked it out...I honestly don't remember, but there was a lot going on. Or more likely, I just don't want to remember.

Law of the Auto Shop: Whatever noise the car was making , will stop the moment you pull into the car bay. Second Law: They will find another noise that will cost you triple.

Thanks, Chas. Just satisfying my curosity.

Holy bejesus, Batman....TESTS? I don't remember taking tests for AV. "Study to show thyself approved unto TWI", huh!

Tonto-I'm very jealous. I always wanted that car! Mine was a '65 Pontiac Tempest: got it for $300 in '74. It had those hydralic jacks in back, which, thankfully, I never figured out how to use. It had starter problems: I used to have to get under and manually twist the starter into place to get it going. It took me all over California, then to Mississippi, then Illinois. We dressed it up as the "Mystery Wagon" for a parade, and then I totaled the poor thing in a rainstorm. Oh well-got a lot out of it for $300-lot of money for a struggling believer back then.

Go fetch-cute! Very well organized and responsive-thanks, D.

I rather stay in my own backyard. That one scares me.

I think the "all are equally bad" lumps him in, don't you?

Ok, I had my look-makes me appreciate Greasespot even more. Are they young, or what?

Are they editing out "Negative" comments? And (shudder) will they try to track us?