doojable

Way too friggin' coool! Congrats all around!

Sure...but you might "miss the blessing." <_<

Dangit! John Philip Sousa didn't write a Happy Birthday March.... Happy Birthday, Bow!

Actually, that's a New York second......LOL

I missed the part where it started in Texas... I thought that Johnny Carson started it. Can someone please get that quote for me?

Your mother sews socks in He!L!

But do you spew pea soup...?

Damien Rice - "Delicate" (Ala - look at the condition of his guitar!)

She'll have to put them in her other ear....then spin around in a circle three times and say the words, "THE WORD OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD, AND THE MOG SPEAKS FOR GOD." Then she will have a perfectly renewed mind.....until the next time she forgets to keep her Bible ribbon marking the place for John 10:10 - just for witnessing purposes. ;)

I just remembered another thing that irked me. I entered the Corps wanting to receive spiritual training that would help me speak through my art. I knew I'd have to put down my pencils and paint brushes for 4 months - no problem. I knew that was coming and it was fine and expected. I was put in "Sewing." Anyone who knew me would have known that this was not a real talent for me. I had to work at it and overcome some fear - but I got to the point that I was in charge of altering the pants of those men that lost 20-80 lbs and still needed to wear the same pants because the $20/ mo. allowance wasn't enough to buy a new wardrobe. (I actually was in charge of minor alterations for the rental tuxes worn by those men who got ordained when I was at HQ in August of 1983. I did hemming and such.) OK fine. After 4 months, still nothing having to do with my real talent. Six months still nothing. In fact, it wasn't until the LAST BLOCK OF MY LAST YEAR that I got to be in Devine Design. In fact, I had training as a conservation framer. When the 11th Corps gave their graduating gift to the campus, it was a remodeling of the snack room. We had art to hang and frame. I was familiar with the party line that we should do everything to the highest standards, so I suggested acid free rag mats for this art. P*t L*nn looked at me with such anger and hatred in her eyes! Her words were, "Well, this isn't a frame shop. We go with what I say." When it came time to hang the artwork, I wanted to measure and be careful, Once again, the Dragon Lady with the Red Hair gave me that evil stare and just started nailing. I had strong abilities and talent in two areas, but they were overlooked and poo-poohed. I wish I had a nickel for every person who's strengths and talents were just ignored. I'd be rich. Yet, if a gal had been found to have secretarial skills, she was working in that department as quick as they could get her in there. I guess the point I'm not making very well here is that a majority of the artists and writers were not really allowed to persue their gifts and talents. If you could build or provide good manual labor, well then you were in - but all that talk about the artisans and the temple - well it wasn't really practiced. Talent was put on hold. I hate to think about how many folks just abandoned their true talents so that they could impress an MOG. Oh and today - I've been a professional picture framer for over 22 years. I return to this every summer while school is out. I paint portraits and teach painting and drawing for a living. I'm glad that God is in charge. I'm sorry that these men said that they knew God's heart on the matter. Rant over - for now.

OK - new description of New York minute: The amount of time between a TWI-er using the word, "luck" and getting reproved for it.

Bob Dylan -"With God on Our Side" (A great anti-war song.)

George Harrison and Paul Simon in a nice version of "Here Comes the Sun" and "Homeward Bound"

George Harrison - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

....And how long did that take?

I had all of Corinthians from my in residence years - but I think they got burned in my BBQ .....

I'm a New Yorker that lives in Texas... I only heard that a "New York minute" was the time it took between the light turning red and the sound of a car horn sounding for you to GO! If you knew the driving conditions down here - this would make you laugh..

Sudo- Plain and simple- my parents didn't cuss! The teens on the block did, though. That was my point. I'm not getting into a discussion on the other points.

It may have more to do with where you grew up, Sudo. I grew up in NYC, and although my parents didn't cuss (or they cussed in another language ;)) I certainly heard cussing. I didn't cuss until I was in my late teens - but then I really took to it for a while...Then I realized that it made me sound less intelligent, so I geared it back. Now I don't cuss often, but when I do, I do it on purpose- not out of habit. (Not that it matters to you, neccesarily. I just happen to feel that if I am going to use certain words that it should be intentional and not because I have no other, better words at my command.) I would never coach a child to cuss, and I didn't have my kids repeat the mistake when they slipped up in a manner like I posted earlier. I just don't think that Kassie cussed. She said an inappropriate word for a child her age. Granted, her mother did coach her to repeat it, but you have NO idea as to their home situation. Mom may have been recording it so that she could show it to her husband who is in Iraq, or for a grandparent, or just because it's one of those moments. Now, I posted a baby who babbles and adds a sound that comes out like, "Sh itt." Again, this may just be an innocent situation. There is no other indication that this baby talks yet. My oldest "said" the word "Mama" just seconds after she was born. The nurses heard it and commented on it. We both know that she made a sound and we all placed a meaning to it - she didn't "say" anything. In the case of the babbling baby on the cell phone, I think that someone just wanted to get the babbling on tape and the offensive sound just happened to be in there.

:evildenk: Spirit of Chair Stringing.....COME OUT! :evildenk:

I just don't know the answer.... someone/ 7-up Tiger Yvonne DeCarlo dunno...

"Last Tears"

Indigo Girls - "Hammer and a Nail"

Ummmmm...T-Bone? You're not STRINGING those dining room chairs....? GET OUT!

Female portraits over 500 years in Western art: (the first painting isn't really supposed to be a woman - It's the Angel Gabriel...but I didn't make the video.)