CoolWaters

If it's not too presumptuous of me, may I suggest the book Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch? It's not exactly your situation at all...not even close...but similar...and it's wonderfully real, honest and hilarious! :) {{{{{Hopefull}}}}}

OK. Thanks Raf. Makes more sense to me now. :)

Ben Stein wrote all this? I had no clue. I've been getting emails...and before emails, chain letters...with these words nearly verbatim ever since I can remember...and long before I heard of Ben Stein, Nick and Jessica and even Anne Graham. Wow.

Growing up I was allowed to wear only brown, navy and black because my mother thought I should hide my fat. One summer I was a speed freak....lost a whole lot of weight...got a gorgeous tan...and she let me wear certain yellows, pinks and whites. Once I started buying my own clothes but was still living at home, I did the whole color thing and ended up being allowed salmons and powdery blue-grays. Once I got totally away from my mother (2000 miles away) I started wearing BRIGHT colors with HUGE patterns (mostly florals) and reserved anything less BLINDING for things like funerals. I still dress like this whenever possible...'cause I have a blast wearing these things. Why should I care to do otherwise? I honestly don't understand.

Oakspear and WordWolf... THANK YOU! You caught me before I fell for the onus of responsibility and shame again.

John 17 Somehow in all of my bible studies I do not remember ever reading this chapter. Commonly known as The Prayer of the High Priest, when I was first shown this chapter I felt as though life finally came into focus. Verse 3 in particular: "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." This is eternal life. It just resonates within me like a tuning fork.

Hold on...I did mine all wrong. Duh me! BRB OK...I think I've got it right now. Sheesh! A D B B+ C A E E B ******************* Shell...from what you've posted I'd say you're: B (more twi-2 than anything) D (in twi more than 15 years) C (took advance class) You didn't say anything about how you feel about vpw or lcm, what you're registered politically, or the population of your county, B (you have 2 pets) B (you have 2 children. *********************** Mo...in twi-2 and for 5-10 years. I never realized this about you. Somewhere in the insanity of that time we were together I got it into my mind that you'd been around forever. And you have more than 5 pets? You?? I would have never guessed! Oh...wait...did your gerbils have babies or something?

Dang! I would have done it for half that! Men pay women to whip on 'em? :blink: My husband owes me a whole lot of money!!!! (OK, I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone with my humor here. I just thought this was funny. No, I don't think the stealing part is funny. But c'mon...this sentence: "Lady Sage also commands $1,000 a day in travel expenses if she has to beat a customer on his own turf." It's just so...funny!)

And danged if you don't come out of it all stronger than any old angel! OK...continue discussion. :)

OMG!!!!!!!!! ROFLMAOPIMP!!!!!!!!! Now I've got a new theme song for my life. Hehehe.

Throwing stones...oh man do I have experience! Hubs and I have two basic rules for communicating with one another: 1)If you don't want crap, don't start crap, and, 2)If you throw stones, know that you're gonna get boulders lobbed back at you. Although we often don't get it...except maybe months down the road...people find it hilarious when we fight now that we've got those two rules in place. Even our kids. Our fights tend to go something like this: Me: Tell me, then, where did you learn to do/be __________. Hubs: Are you calling me names or dissing on me? Me: No. I'm trying to understand where you're coming from. Hubs: No you're not! You're trying to find my weaknesses and then hone in on them! Me: I don't have to look for your weaknesses, dear. Hubs: See! You admit it! Me: You're using your selective hearing again. Hubs: Just because you believe yourself to be some sort of word smith doesn't mean I'm stupid! Me: I didn't call you stupid. Hubs: You didn't have to! You're just that kind of b**ch! Me: OK. You've lobbed some pretty harsh stones. Do you want me to lob boulders? Hubs: It doesn't matter what I want because you're gonna do whatever you want anyway so ---- you! Me: Like you're gonna get that chance now! Hubs: So? I don't wanna ---- you anyway! Me: Fine! Then stop propositioning me! Hubs: Go to hell! Me: That'd be a vacation after you! Hubs: Yeah? So leave already! Me: And now that we've thrown so many stones we're completely off the topic, can you answer the question? Hubs: What question? Me: Where did you learn to do/be ___________? Hubs: What business is that of yours? Me: It'd be nice if I could understand where you're coming from. That's all. Hubs: Where I come from is none of your affair. Me: Awwwright _________! (insert whatever handle of GSC poster that is driving me nuts at the moment) Hubs: (guilty snorting laughter) You really think I'm acting like __________? Me: I do. Hubs: OK. I'll back off and calm down. So what was the original question? Dang! Writing that out and reading it written out like that...sheesh! It's not only ridiculous, but it's almost like we act out some sort of warped GSC screenplay or something. So now I have to wonder... Which came first, the way we fight or GSC?????? Drat. Now I have to rethink everything I was gonna say. I wonder where we learned to do things this way?

Also, you can check out some stuff I have at http://feyaurora.com/images/ It's a BUNCH of stuff to look through, though. If you see something you like let me know and I'll size it correctly for ya.

Suda! LMAO!!!! And I thought this was gonna be something I'd read before. ROFLMAO!!!

So I'm wrong about your youth. I've been wrong before. Honest!

Hehe.

Darlene Louise! Your youth is showing! A gal of my refined age values a little bit of on the outside if the inside is . Hehehe. Tom's playing the professor in the movie? Didn't you see Saving Private Ryan or Forest Gump???? Tom's perfect, imo!

Jade...you knew it couldn't last, didn't you? I think I hear your mother calling, btw...

Thelma, dear....I knew you didn't originate that laugh story. You see, dear, you are TOO YOUNG to be required to endure this torture. Also...said in my best aside whisper...dear, you've haven't been a B cup since middle school. And David...that'd be funny if I didn't know so many men who would have too much fun with such a machine...

Y'all are dissin' on Tom Hanks???? Wow...y'all are picky picky picky!

This site is fun when you're bored. But it also brings home the reality of just how easy it is for teens and young adults to pass themselves off as 'of age'.

With all due respect, SV, it is considered bad practice for a nurse or any other professional to go around tossing out 'professional advice' to complete strangers outside of one's professional environment. I don't think you're the type to use any professional license you may hold as a license to 'practice your profession' willy nilly in a grocery line, a restaurant, on the sidewalk, on a message board etc. :) (If you were, btw, you'd be crossing some very dangerous, very well-drawn legal lines. ) And OMG!!!! Children and what comes out of their mouths!!! LOL Poor things. How're they supposed to know? Hehehehe.

I'm not Garth and I'm not answering for him. I think you have a good point, johniam. The point about "it's OK for atheists to make fun of Christians". Whenever there is a line drawn in the sand by any side of the issue, and then insults, mockeries, names, etc. are lobbed back and forth over that line, it's nastiness regardless of which side it's coming from. I used to have a bumper sticker that said, "Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind." Many Christians were offended by that bumper sticker. But no atheist or other fundamentalist type thinking group was offended. I wondered why. I still wonder why. That bumper sticker did not single out Christians, so why did most people who read it think it did? This topic did single out Christians. If I were trying to make a lucid argument with the list I posted, I would have to rewrite the whole thing to be about any fundamentalist group. But I posted the list to be funny. My previous responses to you were to be funny. Much like the "Yo Momma" jokes, the man-bashing jokes, the blonde jokes and such found in the "Just Plain Silly" forum. I didn't try to post this in that forum because I didn't realize that one can now post a New Topic in that forum. Would you not have been offended if I had posted this thread in that forum? I'm asking because I honestly meant no offense...and mean no offense...to you or to anybody. Which is why I put that statement in the sub-topic.

Bramble, The problem is not with the insurance company...it's with Bill's boss and what coverage he buys. If he doesn't buy the coverage, the insurance company can't accept the claim no matter what. ******************** Huh? Anorexics and bulimics prove that not eating causes weight loss, too. So how come they're dying just as quickly--and often more quickly--as obese people? I mean, seriously, the survivors found in the death camps were in death camps. You know...they were put there to die. Please tell me that you know better than to equate starving to death with rational, well-balanced, healthy weight management. Also, please tell me that you understand the dangers of losing weight too quickly. If I lived on 1000 cal/day my blood sugars would be so out of whack that I'd end up in the hospital. Sure, I'd lose weight in a hurry. BUT I'd be next to dead...and as soon as I started eating anything over 1000 cal/day, I'd put on weight faster than I took it off. Gotta love that starvation mentality. This argument about people starving to death being a good example of simply not eating causing weight loss has been used here before. IMO, it's callous...to say the least.

OK, OM...can you look at what was done? The racist, bigoted jokes. The rabid frothing at the mouth 'reproof' about 'charity'. The very teachings, "If a man wants to go to hell, let him go to hell." and "You can't offend a dead man." And, btw, 'moving the word' is not a definition 'love' in the bible.

allan Is it 'disagreeing strongly' to mock, ridicule, shame and deny basic needs? Don't tell me you never did such things...because you do such things right here on these threads. And DON'T EVEN try to convince yourself that what twi taught about those outside of the bubble came anywhere close to the mindset of Jesus. You can't really be that brainwashed. Trying to argue the point of twi's hatred as anything like Jesus only makes you look willfully stupid. So, can you join the conversation and add something to this thread by actually looking at the question? allan, if it isn't hate, where is the love?