ChasUFarley

When I was in TWI I moved 30 times in the 12 years I was in. Each move gave me the chance to "burn the chaff" - I'd always question if it was worth packing something and moving it again or if I should part with it. For many of those years I had little Ford Festiva and could easily fit all my belongings into it to move. When I got married, I still didn't have a lot of personal items. Now I have a house, two kids, two cats and more crap than I dare to mention. It's the first time in my adult life that I've lived somewhere for more than one year! Since my house is about 200 years old, we have a root cellar and not a basement like many modern homes. Storage is at a minimum. Last year I had my first yard sale. When it was over I asked hubby to please shoot me if I ever got an idea like that again! I met some really whiney women who wanted things for free - I was almost ready to pay them to leave! This year I'm packing up the "chaff" and it's going to Goodwill and the local Greek church for their annual rummage sale - they can deal with the whiney women! ================================================ Another man question: Why can't men see when they have braidable nose hair?

I wonder about that, too. I used to clean houses - the biggest slobs I had accounts on were lesbian couples - they were the worst, next to several highly-educated couples I cleaned for (both had PhD's, were professors at the local University, etc.) Gay men usually had pretty tidy homes - and usually the most interesting. The worst people to clean for were expecting mothers. They expected the place to be spotless and expected you to do it for next to "free". They expected way too much! :-)

Good gawd - I can't imagine thinking about where to go when leaving TWI - just getting out of that hellhole was all the going I needed to do... Going somewhere else or getting involved with another cult was the last thing on my mind. Besides, I've always had a problem with how TWI and some of these off-shoots think they're what I call "Daddy's favorite"... Sorry, but I don't think that's for them to decide and my Bible says God doesn't play favorites with the faithful.

Joey was my WOW bro in CA in 89-90 and we'd always catch up with each other at various events... Just wondering how he's doing... I'm at ChasUFarley1@yahoo.com, if you're lurking...

All HAIL to Trefor! Long live the biggest geek here on GSC (that I know of...) (I mean, you READ a BOOK about ST blunders... good grief....) (Now if you tell me you own Leonard Nemoy's record album where he does the song about the Bilbo, I'll really be impressed!) Here! Here! Ol' Chap! Dal ati!, Daliwch ati!

I do a great "Julie The Cruise Director" routine, if that will help... As far as the travel agent thing goes, I used to do travel arrangements for GE Power Systems when I worked with them (I was in an international sales and marketing division - we had salespeople everywhere - France, Egypt, Italy - you name it!) So, where do you want to go?

Methinks this thread should be linked to the other thread that's going on right now about the military enlistment being challenged because of the weight problem in America... Think there's a connection here?

W-OO! W-OO! W-OO! GO RAF! GIMME AN "R"! "R!" GIMME AN "A"! "A!" GIMME AN "F"! "F!" WHADDOES IT SPELL?! RAF! GGGGGooo-ooooooo-OOOOO RAF! By the way, you smell a lot better now.

OMG - I must have a s/m side to me, because that was the most fun abuse I've had in a while!

http://www.rada.org/ The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts type-accent Or, as my dad would have said, "Damn stuffed shirts!" (in other words, an accent that will add 20 points to your actualy IQ, rather than the 10 points that a plain ol' Brit accent would...)

In the simplest of terms -- PFAL was based in scripture and scriptures were referenced to build to conclusions. WAP took LCMs looney idea's and THEN tried to stuff scriptures in place to validate them -- like the teaching about Eve being a dyke and doin' it with a serpent while a painting by Michaelangelo (sp) was used to prove it was true... It was like watching that comedian from SNL who played the guy who lied all the time... Uh, yeah... and then Eve, uh, decided she would, uh, do it with a... uh... half-snake woman... yeah! That's it! Like, uh, in this painting. Yeah, that's right! Lemme put it another way... When PFAL was over, I was glad I had taken it and felt I had something from it. When WAP was over, I was just glad.

Thank you for sharing about this - I was not aware there was a day of observance about this - and rightly so! I believe that the History Channel has some special programming running in honor of this...

Interesting thought --- In all the formats that music had been made available in, it seems that the sound preferences all come down to CD (digital) and vinyl - I don't hear anyone waxing nostalgic over cassettes or 8-tracks ("Gee, remember that great sound 8-tracks made when switching to the next block of music? I really miss that..." NOT!)

eMusic.... Where do I begin.... I listen to a wide variety of music, as you may have guessed from some of my posts... eMusic, in my opinion, is a tool for promotion bands, singers, labels - not for finding rare cuts (nothing is juicier!) or oldies or current cuts. Run a searh on Joss Stone, Hall & Oats, David Broza, U2, The Cure, AC/DC, Dolly Parton - you'll get nada, zip, zero, zilch - but there's tons of "World Music" (I hate that all-encompassing term, but anyhow...) there, if that's your thing. (Hey, I even listen to some ethnic music but that's not everything to me.) eMusic doesn't give me the bang for my buck that I'm looking for.

Thank you for the kind words Abigail... Hubby, the poster formerly known as Mathman, is a public high school math teacher. He is also the math department chair and heads up the math team, which placed fourth in the state this year - thank-you-very-much! When I saw your thread, Abigail, I asked him if he knew that it was Teacher Appreciation Week this week. He responded, "Yeah. I had Ramen noodles in my inbox this morning with a note from the vice principal saying, 'You're Souper!'" Oh, puleeezeeee! And today he worked from 7:30AM until 5:40PM because tomorrow his advance math students have their big test where they will qualify for college credits if they score high enough.... Teachers don't work for peanuts... now-a-days it's Raman noodles!

My parents were humane agents and it seemed like we always had some weird critter living in the house with us... We raised 3 baby squirrels and found that although they loved walnuts, peanuts, etc., they really had a passion for... OREOS! (And yes, they could unscrew them to eat the frosting first!)

I feel that same way about my kids, somedays....

p.s. Why is that FL, although geographically is further south than GA, AL, etc., BUT is NOT CONSIDERED THE SOUTH?!? Waz' up with that?

TIME LINE OF ONE BAD ACCENT..... 1989... I was 18 when I went WOW to CA. I had grown up in Maine and had such a thick Mainer accent that people in CA thought I was a Cockney from London! A-YAH! 1990... The following year, I moved to Alabama. I remember working at a Hardee's when I first got there and not understanding a single thing people were saying to me. Never mind the fact they were eating biscuits and drinking Coke for breakfast! EEEEwwww! I lived in the south for several years, as I was also a WOW in Nashville, TN (whoo-hoo, y'all!) 1996... I moved back to ME when I was divorcing my first husband. Now everyone thought I was from the deep south. Hubby, who is an NH native, still gives me crap about how I sounded when we met in 2000. I tend to sound 'southern' now when I get tired... I worked on loosing the southern accent but still can't pronounce my "R's" when they're at the end of a word... "Did y'all pa'k the ca'?" So, now I just tell people that I'm really from SOUTHERN MAINE!

I thought this was about the biggest waste of ABS there was going. I mean, LCM supposedly had all these reasons for why the WC should be paid as full time staff on the field. I remember the areas that I lived in during this time not having a lot of classes - but there were a lot of meetings. It seemed like the WC weren't "moving the Word" any more than they did when they worked regular jobs... It seemed like some had things that were way beyond their "need" - or what I would consider "need"... I remember one LC I had getting a special toupee made one year - it had to have cost big $$$ - he still looked like an ape in a wig (besides, I think bald is sexy, but that's just me...) But that was my ABS sitting on the top of his head, you know? It was stupid and sort of frosted my @$$.... I didn't even have health insurance and these twits had extra hair... insane! What good was it sending the WC to full time?

Galen -- I think I can speak to some of the questions you had... AC Specials - If you were an AC and didn't go to the AC Special it was either because you were in debt OR you were fixin' to get the holy boot from leadership because you had a family emergency or had to work or something and could not attend it. I would say that the attendance of the AC Specials was about 90% of the AC grads in an area - maybe that percent is a little high - but I wouldn't say it would be any lower than 80%. Branch numbers - TWI was getting away from the whole tree terminology in the late 90's. They were calling it an old wine skin. Truth was, few areas had 50+ people for a true branch. Plus, believers were told to move closer to leadership, so in reality most limb coordinators were also running twig areas (or household fellowship areas, excuuussseee me!) After the Way Corps stopped the full time program - what a waste of ABS that was! - the only WC who were still on the payroll were those who were overseeing areas of 100+ people. In the New England area (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT...) I know of only two Way Corps couples who were full time in the late 90's - one was the Limb Coordinators of CT, the other was the Regional Coordinators! That was IT! At that time, NH and VT had a combined limb of less than 50, ME had less than 30, and MA & RI had a combined limb of less than 70. By the way - these numbers are from BEFORE RFR was placed as president - remember, there was somewhat of a fallout from the news about LCM's 'poor judgement' or whatever the hell TWI called it....

The first ROA that I went to was in 1989. I remember it being "ify" about TWI having it because of all the people who had left that year... There was like 1,800 there that year - no lines for anything, really. I believe the biggest ROA was about 2,800 - that would have been the last one. Someone on another thread posted that they figured the turnout for the ROAs was half of the members, which sounds like a good barometer for a close estimate on the total number of members. TWI is far too "dirty" to ever get those numbers again - but they dismiss the low head-count as being like the children of Isreal, as all that were in Egypt had to die off in the wilderness before they could go into the Promised Land... TWI thinks they're in the Promised Land... I say, someone needed to stop to ask for directions a long time ago because they are soooo lost! (Boy, could they use OnStar!)

Analog is 'warmer' sounding - hands down. Some genres of music don't sound as good in digital as they do in analog - some even require that *pop! sss-hisss!* sound that you can only get off vinyl... Don't give me Ella Fitzgerald or Glenn Miller on CD - it just don't cut it! Some things have to have the wax to be good!

Oh, man... Someone mentioned the slaughter house.... Remember the pig farm up the road at HQ? YOW! That place could get pretty rank on a humid day when the winds would change just before a good rain... It could gag a maggot!

Sharon -- Yes, I noticed that too! Another one that was horrible was Kevin Costner in Robin Hood - his accent is American for part of the movie and then British for other parts.... Funny thing is that if someone has a British accent, they're assumed to have an IQ 10 points higher than they actually have, but if they have a Southern accent*, they're IQ is lowered by 20 points! *Before all y'all below the Mason-Dixon Line jump on me quicker than pigs on slop, remember Chazzy lived in the ol' South for a good little bit and is fluent in Southernese...