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Belle said: Actually, I found I got a buzz much faster when the stuff was ingested than when it was smoked. BTW, if the brownies tasted bad, I think it's because you used too much pot. Spaghetti was really good at masking the taste. After all, who didn't hide their stash in an oregano bottle anyway? :)

Believe me, Psalmie, I'm laughing with you, not at you. That's so like something I would do! Mr. Strange, you're most welcome.

Rocky said: I can't tell you how much better that makes me feel. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized that Gordon Lightfoot's song wasn't about one of those shipwrecks that happened in the late 1800s. I'm not sure why I didn't hear about it on the news in 1975, except that I was pretty much at the height of having my twi head up my twi butt during most of the 70s.

Waysider, your brownie story is a hoot. I can't believe you used a whole lid! Actually, brownies and spaghetti were my favorite ways to partake. So much less hassle than rolling a joint. And so much handier to pack in your lunch to take to work!

bow, I think he had the decade wrong, not the person. It was Debra Olthouse for sure, but it was in the 80s, not the 90s. I saw Debra singing it and VP joining her on it many times back then when I was at HQ.

Here's a link to an interesting site that gives details about the Lightfoot song, line by line. http://home.europa.com/~random7/fitz.htm#line It also says there have been more than 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, half of which have never been found. I'm not surprised. Having grown up on one of those lakes, I know that crossing them can be more perilous than an ocean voyage. God bless the families left behind by such a tragedy.

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Hahahahahah Shaz, but I guarantee, we thought of you when he played it! Nice to see ya!

Cynic: It's laughable. I'll PM you, cuz that's not what Friend Tracker is for. I probably should have kept my mouth shut, but I just couldn't resist.

Many thanks to all who have served and prayers and thanks for those serving now.

hiway, I think that was just his ego. Every time I saw him play, he played quarterback for both sides. He probably thought he was so superior in that position that it just wouldn't be fair for anyone else to have to QB against him.

Tonto, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahaha. Thank you. I so needed to laugh!

Nota, they used to do that at Rome City too...invite both parties to speak during campaign time. But then of course they always said how great the Republican was after the candidates had gone. LOL Oops, I meant Notta. Sorry. :)

A teaching he did in the mid-70s helped me make a decision that dramatically and permanently changed my life for the better. I've always been thankful for that, even though I wasn't a big fan of his after he got so big for his britches. And as ex-10 says, he could be very funny--especially when he wasn't being cruel in his humor.

He was the Mid-Atlantic Region Coordinator in 1981-82 but I don't know how long he held that position.

I blew the cobwebs off a book in this series I have. On the inside of the front flyleaf, it lists the other books in this series as "published posthumously"; then, on the title page, it says, "edited posthumously by Christopher C. Gearshift." I thought that sounded strange, too, but I googled the phrase "edited posthumously" and found it used in this way many times. My understanding, when these books came out, was that a lot of the chapters were edited from transcripts of teachings (e.g. SNS tapes, etc.), not from written material. It's a long time ago, though, so I might not be remembering correctly.

Good idea, shortfuse! I have to wonder, why are they teaching about the food pyramid? Good grief, I learned about that in 6th grade. Are they gearing up again to boot overweight people from twi, or are they simply treating everyone like 11-year-olds?

David, I know you wouldn't do that. I was just contrasting your post re: watching the deer with other people's contentions that these innocent creatures are "SOBs." Sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like you'd actually do such a thing. I don't think for a minute you would. Vegan, Waysider is right. Where I live, predators of deer are scarce, but deer have overpopulated. It's a manmade problem, to be sure, but the deer only suffer when their herds are too large. As Krys has pointed out, starvation is a big problem. I'd much rather see deer herds culled by hunters, and their meat given to people who need it, as Waysider has said, than see them starve to death. The effectiveness of using deer birth control to thin herds is still controversial.

WG, I don't think you and your hubby are any of those things. Not at all. I simply think there is a middle ground somewhere between being a "tree hugger" and believing poor, dumb deer are "SOBs" for having the gall to get in our way.

When I saw this... ...I chuckled. I get exactly what WG is saying. Obviously the articles weren't edited by VPW posthumously. That IS impossible. Yes, but they aren't edited posthumously by the dead person who wrote them. See? :D

David, you just watched them? Gosh, shouldn't you have gone to get a vehicle and mowed the "SOBs" down? I'm sure they were all scheming about whose cars they could wreck next. /sarcasm off I'm no radical animal rights person by any means, and I've seen the damage done by a deer vs. a car or truck. I've also come very close to being wiped out by one myself, on more than one occasion. So I understand the frustration. I'm not opposed to culling the herds to keep overpopulation in check. Despite all that, the saddest sight I've seen in a long time was a couple years ago. A beautiful, majestic buck had been hit by a car. It was rush hour and the roads were icy. I passed just after it had happened. That poor deer had a look of pain and absolute terror in his eyes as he tried over and over and over again to get to his feet on the icy pavement. He had a huge wound on his flank and it looked like his pelvis was broken. The memory of that beautiful creature struggling and frightened still saddens me. I'd have been even sadder if WG's hubby had been hurt or worse, but please don't make it sound like these pretty, peaceful creatures are out to "get you." And I'm sorry, but a bit of crushed metal, though aggravating, can't be compared to seeing the life going out of an innocent animal in such a slow, painful way. Getting shot would have been a walk in the park by comparison. So, I'm sure it wasn't such a great day for the deer that was hit, either. Let the flame throwing begin.

I understand ya better now, Mo. And I agree.

I'm thinking aloud here. I have to wonder: Doesn't this make the one who has been wronged dependent on the one who wronged him/her? If that person doesn't confess/repent, then the one wronged needs to carry the burden of not forgiving? If it were me, I think I'd rather have the power to choose to forgive or not forgive regardless of whether the wrongdoer confesses/repents. If I wait for someone to "deserve" my forgiveness, I might carry that burden a long time. If I'm free to forgive or not, that seems to give me more choices. I might be wacky, but that's what I"m thinking at the moment.

Thanks for the history lessons, Twinky & Pete. Very interesting.

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