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We had a chestnut tree when I was young.. I remember they were good enough to endure the stinking barbs on the husk! Fresh chestnuts.. ahh.

How could I have missed this! Happy Birthday! Don't let anybody tell you you're over the hill or something.. hope you enjoyed your birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Maybe he is some kind of superman or something.. reports are coming in from all over the world! Last siting.. loy apparently joined a Scottish swimming team. The photographer caught him just as he came up for air..

Exie, I've been saying that all along.. glad somebody else sees it.. :lol:

Let me say, Brother Speed KNOWS wherof he speaks! Relativity is an interesting concept.. Well, if you are travelling at the speed of light, you ARE light. The question then becomes, can light see itself? Hmmmm..

Good morning, wonderful Belle of the South.. Thanks (?) for transcribing this little "gem", you've got more intestinal fortitude than I could ever muster up! :) Well, at least I was warned.. barf bag sitting right here by my easy chair.. Hard to read even the comments, but Groucho.. I think I like yours best.. :lol: "continued"(???) outreach (where in God's name?) prevailing (don't wanna go there..)" word. Good grief.. nothing's changed..

Well.. looks like at least 95 percent of the list is preventable.. sorry (maybe not really 'sorry'), I didn't see any justification.. just a statement of FACT.

The bod, that is.. CONTINUING? kinda assumes a lot.. that somehow, He's worked in them mightily all along.. who in the world are they trying to kid??? Probably just themselves.. Good grief.. They'd be better off praying for their lawyers..

I thought I already WON the election.. oh sorry, that was just the "silly" election. Sure, I'm in..

Hence, the instructions I heard given to some people, "I shouldn't HAVE to tell you. Go figure it out yourself.." Good grief.

Good possiblity.. :D If its what I think it is.. I hope it just didn't freak you out!

Good point! What in the world would I want a stinkin crown for anyway.. too darn heavy. Just have to have the heavenly chiropractor "minister" to my neck anyway.. We've figured out that we know so LITTLE in this life.. how about some of the secrets of the universe? That might be kinda nice..

Interesting.. I thought an overseer in the church had to fit these descriptions. Notice that "not a homo" is anywhere in the list.. may disqualify them, may not.. "Striker": 1) bruiser, ready for a blow 2) A PUGNACIOUS, CONTENTIOUS, QUARRELSOME PERSON A lot of people here probably are disqualified on these points. I suppose I would be also.. at least on three counts. Well.. If homo's are disqualified, I guess we are in the same company.. :)

Rewards.. yep. "I don't want the lord to come to MY TURN and just say 'ahem, next..'.." Oh, the embarrassment! Woe is me... I guess rewards might be nice.. but If they are even gonna be there, I don't think they would be doled out for being a not so nice (rude!) faithless wayfer.. "Well done (?) thou good (?) and faithful (???!) servant (????????!!!), here's a shiny new car for giving the Lord a black eye.."

Probably some limited six month commitment to go slave away at Gunnison or something... New "program" for the "masses"(?) to get behind the wheel on.. Any kind of "big" announcement coming out of that "little"(very) place would make me a little suspicious..

Well, what I kinda meant in this was, what kind of a beating did they give the rest of the corps that were left behind in that dungeon? What kind of threats were made? What kind of accusations, that they were spiritually the lowest of the low for not "sniffing out" some one as "devilish" as you? What kind of foul accusations were thrown that somehow, despite doc vic praise be his name (in honor of Steve!) training to be attentitive to details, that somehow, they "missed it"? "Well, we oughta send you whole bunch of stinkin losers home.. if you don't straighten up.." Don't think it happened? I've been in those kind of meetings, and I WAS NOT CORPS. I suggest that you were "used". Oh yes, "those kind of meetings".. many of the worst, I remember in the "good old days".. early seventies.

How friggin sick can you get. MANDATORY? I can see rosie under oath.. "so, ms(?) bark, do you have mandatory meetings?" "Heavens to betsy, nevah.." "so are you saying, nobody HAS to go to meetings?" "well, I wouldn't quite say that.... but they sure aren't MANDATORY.."

Any claim to the contrary would make as much sense as claiming a battered person shouldn't have run into the batterer's fist.. I would admit one thing though.. for me to allow "them" to do the same thing the second time around, after recovering myself from the lions grip, perhaps WOULD be my fault. For me, It took over a year to figure out that I was indeed abused.. I think that's the insidious nature of the beast. Many weren't addicted to the ministry of the saints.. but thought they were. More like addicted to the abuse.

That was my experience. All others were "Christen dumb". "possessed". "run by seed of the serpent". We were told that lions and such were just waiting anywhere off of the "way" of holiness.. and yes, that "way", was loy's "way". Lessee. No house, no debt, no pets, no extra-curricular involvement, corps head up your schedule, not to mention every waking moment of your life.. well, couldn't have been all that bad, eh kiddies? Ptooie. Nobody. The problem was, there WAS no standard. They could set the hoops as high as they wished.. Reminds me of you and the corps program, oldies.. would have given your right arm or something.. but you had value to them, sure. You were an "example". And whooo boy, they sure took advantage of "examples". I would call it "used". Wonder what kind of kind, considerate meetings followed your departure.. They used you like.. well, I don't wanna invoke the wrath of the moderators.

The inside rumor is that he has trained himself to the point of peak performance, and is anxiously planning his comeback, all with a new "production"- "Atheletes of the Spinach".

Hey! There was yet ANOTHER siting, in the back woods of Mississippi (whew, even got the spelling right). Too bad the guy didn't have a camera, but here's the sketch artists rendition:

Belle, I've seen enough gold in "some of us" here to last me a lifetime!

The only thing I could add to this.. it takes real character to not only just not to pluck out your neighbor's eye for them, just because YOU think it may cause him to sin.. but to acknowledge the real gold that's in him or her. But that's too hard to do if you already have all of the answers.

I think the docs name was Moreau..