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Post by fragile on Nov 28, 2007 19:44:59 GMT -5
50% of all statistics are made up, 50% are inaccuarate, and the other 50% don't mean anything. Stats give me goose bumps even in my face. LMAO! Especially when politics are involved... The very famous global warming conspiracy... They are right, the earth was warming up, but they only measure in HOT PLACES and only go about 1K years back starting the mini-ice age... but before the mini-ice age, the temperature was the same.. lol. Or when George W. Bush goes to war on Iraq because of 3K people that HE killed, and over 300K people a year are dying because of heart disease, and the government can't fund that. That's the kind of statistics that give me goose-bumps on my face
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Post by Mayberry on Nov 28, 2007 20:03:40 GMT -5
And I was just thinking that my favorite pinball game of all time was "Mars Attack" (or was that "Mars Attacks". Sheesh. Getting old and forgetful). Seriously! It was so funny to see all the green Martians shaking when you hit the right combination. Sadly, my favorite diner removed it several years ago. May have been the best pinball game of all time; it made me laugh.
So there's my vent for the night: where *have* all the good pinball games gone? Sounds like the opening to a (particularly awful) folk song.
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Post by astheworldfallsdown on Nov 28, 2007 21:00:57 GMT -5
Pinball, hehe. Seeing the game mentioned makes me think of a funny memory. In my freshman year of high school, our marching band did the music from "Tommy" as our show. For a big prop, we had a giant pinball machine that was made of a tarp, barrels for bumpers, and a back drop with a pinball machine screen design. During one of the songs, our form involved two lines of us marching backwards really fast between the barrels of the prop... That didn't go so well a few times. When they first put the prop out there, during our run through something felt wrong so I looked back to see the guy who was supposed to be marching behind me dancing with a barrel, and thankfully I was able to dodge in time, lol. During a show later that season, we weren't so lucky. Someone put one of the barrels in the wrong spot and the person at the end of the other line hit it, fell, and everyone began tripping over each other in the line. I wish I had a copy of the video tape, it was human dominos in marching uniforms! Unfortunately a girl's alto sax was damaged in the mess, but she was still amused and everyone had a good laugh.
Sometimes I miss marching band, hehe.
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Post by beehappy on Nov 29, 2007 11:46:38 GMT -5
What is it with people who name their kids after alcohol??? I have had the opportunity to meet a Tequilla, a Daquarai, and a Margarita. And the spellings are even a bit off - maybe to make it a little less obvious that you named your kid after a drink?!?! I also had met an individual who had named her daughter Alizay - - nice . I work mainly with females, but I am sure there are some Jim Beams, Jimmy Walkers, and Jack Daniels walking around out there. Seriously ............. not to mention names like Heaven, Precious, Sparkle, and Lovely. Yes...I have met them all as well. What type of life are these kids going to have?? Have you ever met an attorney named Sparkle? A doctor named Tequilla? Poor kids.
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Post by Healing Rain on Nov 29, 2007 12:04:31 GMT -5
ROFLMAO!!!! That just cracked me up!! No offense to the sparkles of the world!
I went to highschool with a girl named "free". She went by a nickname, lilly, instead of her real name. Then, on the day we were practicing for commencement... they were calling all our names making sure they got them all right... they called first, middle and last names.
Her turn... Free Love. Her middle name was LOVE!!
What the hell were her parents thinking, naming thier daughter free love? Sad... sad... sad....
Anyway, attorney sparkle please aproach the bench.... just cracks me up!
~Rain~
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Post by Mayberry on Nov 29, 2007 12:11:56 GMT -5
And then there was the lovely little girl, several years ago, who was given the elegant name,
Bidet.
As I recall, it was "Frenchified" a bit and spelled Bidette (pronounced "Bee-Day.")
I kid you not. I managed to keep a straight face. The infant's 15 year old mother "thought it was a pretty word" and had no earthly idea what it meant. I agreed that it did have a certain ring to it, but that she might want to look into that a bit more. Poor little darling (both of 'em).
I've heard worse, mainly from my schoolteacher friends, but, outside of a Crunchetta I knew growing up (her last name was Ruebottom, which may be the all time worst naming combo; her sister was Precious. I suppose, given the choice, I'd rather be Crunchetta Ruebottom), Bidet (or Bidette) takes the, um, cake.
Must stop now. MUST.
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Post by Healing Rain on Nov 29, 2007 12:19:10 GMT -5
OMG, Mayberry... thats just sad, in that pathetic funny sort of way... when you laugh, shake your head and think "should I really be laughing at the poor child's misfortune".... and you laugh some more.
~Rain~
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Post by Mayberry on Nov 29, 2007 12:27:20 GMT -5
It is my fervent prayer that mom looked it up and that little Bidet was called by her middle name thereafter.
One does wonder what folks are thinking. (One also cannot help but laugh, I suspect. It's like watching people trip; we feel bad but we can almost just not help ourselves, IMO).
The phenomenon seems to cross race and socio-economic lines; I've met folks now from all walks of life with just some of the oddest names. "Destiny" and "Karma" and "Kismet" are making the rounds around here recently.
There are certainly worse things one can do to a child than name them as if you're naming a puppy or a kitten, but I never saw it as a good sign for happy future family relations when new mothers launched in with, um, "interesting" names. I never liked my name growing up, but I was profoundly grateful, even then, that my name was not Precious Ruebottom.
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Post by Charlie on Nov 29, 2007 13:34:10 GMT -5
OMG No NO NO never!
I didn't do marching band as a kid, I did it as an adult. Band Parents. At the beginning of her freshman year my oldest daughter decided to join the color guard of the marching band. And that was the end of free time in the fall. Every weekend there was a football game or a parade or a competition - sometimes more than one. Almost every weekday there was a practice. And then when she graduated, second daughter took her place on the flags. We are not the most involved band parents (we know them though and they are total whack jobs) but we have now been doing this for SEVEN STRAIGHT YEARS.
We've also been thru I think 4 band directors, ranging from gentle bumblers to total flaming a$$holes.
Someone save me!
Charlie
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Post by mo4wo1 on Nov 29, 2007 13:51:43 GMT -5
What is it with people who name their kids after alcohol??? I knew a Jack Daniels. But that's another thread Hey! I dated a "James Brown", once... many moons ago, lol! And then there was the lovely little girl, several years ago, who was given the elegant name, Bidet. Are you serious?! I know it's wrong but... LOL!!!
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Post by astheworldfallsdown on Nov 29, 2007 14:14:59 GMT -5
Oh wow, hehe. Yeah, it's a little different when you look at it from that angle. My parents weren't involved other than attending a few local shows. If my baby grows up and wishes to become a "band geek" I don't know if I could do the band mom thing. I'll hopefully be a graphic designer by then.
As far as flaming a$$holes for band directors go, I had one who was a real arrogant, hot tempered jerk all four years I was at the school I graduated at. He was a musical genious, but he was such a jerk, and it really stressed us kids out at times.
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Post by dazednconfused on Nov 29, 2007 17:12:55 GMT -5
I used to do geneological research... funniest "Ima Knutt" brother Walter (did they can him wal?) Oddest name I heard recently Neveah (heaven spelled backward).
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Post by cindyandben on Dec 1, 2007 7:50:20 GMT -5
Sick VENT again.... Know whats even harder than breathing when you have a head cold/tonselistis/bronchitis/headache/fevor induced body aches.......... I am so in sympathy - these are my lifesavers, when I can get the time to use them: hot steam vaporizer, or a bowl of hot water and a towel to make a steam tent, saline nasal drops, whether store bought or home-made (highly recommended by my ENT doctor), massage of the sinus area, and the following weirdness: tiny amounts of cayenne pepper which causes the phlegm to run like water, and loosens things up. I make a drink with hot water, containing citrus, ginger, cayenne, and honey. I also love the way eucalyptus oil clears my nose out. This is the time for kid-friendly videotapes and videogames, and also the time for take-out food, if there ever was one. Regarding the treatment by husbands of wives "in sickness and in health": I have made a distressing observation regarding pornography - those models can be imagined not to have colds or other human health problems. A friend recently mentioned to her husband that she was concerned that her premenopausal hormones were way out of kilter and she was was feeling awful physically and emotionally. His response was " I dont want to hear about that!". This is a fellow with a serious history of addiction, and I am wondering if he is applying the same sort of obliviousness in the face of the reality of 'woman' to his wife, the same sort of obliviousness that he must have applied to the models he used to look at when he was actively engaging in this activity. Best to both of you
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Post by raisinbran on Dec 1, 2007 23:14:28 GMT -5
I knew a teacher named Anita Shower.
Her parents got a kick out of that, I bet.
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Post by lostguy on Dec 2, 2007 23:20:22 GMT -5
Forgive me but I have a gripe I need to vent about Relating to "P"! WHY is it that I can't find a (Explative Deleted) Peer2Peer service where I can find something OTHER than "P"!!! A large part of my sickness is that it is habit based on what I do, and I would LOVE to spend my free (computer) time searching for a good "Seconds From Disaster" documentary rather than "P"! Problem is I can't find anything else than it and ...Hey, I am an addict. Sorry, I just needed to (expletive)! (I am also nonplussed about cable TV channels that run the SAME movie three times in a row! What is up with that? ? Lost Guy
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