ChasUFarley

The Wierwille front yard is a frikkin' cemetery - complete with a water fountain, plaques, memorials... The WOW Auditorium was renamed after the LATE founding father (ahem) of TWI... they way a stadium was named back in the old days before the big corporations bought them out... There is a honkin' big brass statue of VPW in the thing... No... they don't honor the dead.... not at all.... <_< (it looks like a dang grotto to the BOT by the Garden of Living Waters....!) (I remember TWI as being patriotic about the patriotic holidays - I left in 2000... did things really change?) p.s. Bolshevik - my deepest thanks to your brother for him serving. He should get that name as a tattoo - I know a great artist, if he ever decides to go there...

That wasn't Gr&g B0lchalk was it?

(sorta - it's not about the dang poodle...) Rick - Okay. I understand what you're saying and I'm not saying this to "defend" anyone but really... I respect you Rick, you know that, but I think you're getting heated over something that's pretty widely accepted because it's always in our media... Let's look at how rural southerners are portrayed - We all LOVE Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy - they have this redneck, corn-fed white-boy schitch down to an art form. Do you have a problem with them? What about what they say about the rural south, trailer parks, dating cousins, and the like? I've lived down south most of my adult life - I felt like I knew those guys - the Bubbas of the world - and could relate to them. It was satire - it made fun of some true situations in life - things people could relate to or identify with. But do you consider that bigotry? There's Black commedians - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, etc., who poke fun at their own race - that's acceptable. No one (as far as I know) calls them a bigot. So, why is it bigotry when a white person comments on the white majority in their area or cracks a joke about it?

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nope but i agree that he gives good voice

you can but you have to ask to be in the que to speak next there will be a Q&A period later...

dot - everyone is muted... turn your head and cough, but we won't be able to hear you...

paw - would there be a different way to view this chat room in talkshoe? i like the way the traditional chat shows up - it's more linear - this is horizontal and it's hard to tell who spoke after whom, etc. just a thought - if its something that can be tweaked... if not - it's all cool.

chill bluzman... with all due respect... this is pretty tongue-in-cheek and has been a pretty light-hearted thread... i hear this kinda stuff about the area where i live - and i'm in new england - but i really don't care - it doesn't bother me one bit... you gotta laugh at your surroundings sometimes and see the humor in it - i don't think any harm in meant in it... and what do you do when the people who live there say the same thing??

sometime i'll post a shot of the great arrangement i have on my coffeetable - it's an open Bible, with two candles, a Blue Book, and some wheat - really... you should see it... (HA!) (that would last two minutes in my house now with those boys i have....!)

Skype farted out on me - dunno why... Can we set up a time to test drive all this? I'd like to get the bugs outta the system - and I've recommended Skype and TalkShoe to a client, so I'd like to get more experience... Thx!

plus it makes for some great "inside" jokes... For instance, whenever I am manically cleaning the house, hubby quips, "What's up - is leadership coming over or something?"

(psst -- it's because of your diaper rash... you really should try some zinc oxide on that....)

There's pros and cons to hooking up with someone who's been TWI and someone who's Never Been Way (NBW)... I expect I'll hold onto many of the same beliefs - i.e. one God, no life-after death, etc., so for me I don't feel I have to change who I am. I am with someone who is familiar with what I was a part of, even though we were in TWI at very different times - he left the year BEFORE I joined TWI... I've been able to share more about my experience - especially when it was fresh and I had just left TWI - than it would be someone who hadn't been in TWI. For me, getting someone who had been in TWI wasn't top of my list for what I was looking for - in fact, it was pretty low on the "requirements" - but it's been a bonus. To someone who hadn't been in TWI, I'd just left a "church" - no big deal. To someone who had been in, they could somewhat relate to my experience, although hubby often says, "I was in a 'church'; you were in a CULT!"

For that.... you must experience... THE LLAMA SONG YOU MUST CLICK THE LINK ABOVE...

Dooj - I love Garrison Keiller (sp) (sorry its late) and if you get the chance - read his books - he's a wonderful writer!

yes i know - i watch and listen to him a lot on Prarie Home Companion - one of the highlights of my weekend. hubby will be picking away now until the wee hours of the morning... and I'm sure the cat will still be in the guitar case... they all love guitar cases for beds!

I hope you don't gold in Ogunquit... and if you drop your wallet there, kick it into Wells before you bend over to pick it up!

dmiller - Hubby loved the link - THANK YOU! (made him pull out a guitar afterwards... i heard something to the effect of "wish i could play rhythm like that and lead at the same time... hmmm....") But the cat came back.... (and now she's gonna sleep in his guitar case, if i know her...)

So, squirrel... are you saying she has you by the nuts? :)

Knowing Sushi, it doesn't mean guys who wear yellow pants and carry a "man bag"....

Well, you know what's powering that fountain, don't you? It's the deceased BOT spinning in their graves!

I do - but then I've never been a "girlie girl" and had my nails all perfect and all... I have worse calluses from weight lifting. I find the key thing for me isn't the calluses but keeping my fingernails very short - like almost to the pink. That makes a big difference. I've heard - I've never tried it - that you can put superglue on the tips of your fingers and let it dry (and don't scratch anywhere or pick anything up while it's drying!) and it makes a faux callous for you. rot-row... I detect a case of g.a.s. here....

you said "package".... heh heh hehhehhehe

Many people marry at a time like that - it's not that unusual. I know some hospital clergy won't officiate a wedding like that because they feel that it's an emotional time to begin with so why add a wedding or whatever on top of it all... I say, what difference does it make, as long as they're committed to each other? Update: Hubby isn't going to said fiasco. We had lost one of our cats over the past couple of days and had some sleepless nights. She just resurfaced late this morning - we hadn't seen her since Thursday. So, we're staying close to home and having a family cookout/game night - PHEW! I'm glad the cat talked him out of it...