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  • OK…this post was inspired by mcree, but the questions were, um, "borrowed" from anogete. I would provide links to these 2 wonderful people, but I need lessons!…. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU... Smiled –I’m smiling n…

  • Have any of you read or leafed through The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider? It's a coffee-table book that actually has worthy content, in my opnion. It covers all the days of the year, with a 2-page …

  • I saw the following items in today's Detroit Free Press...I agree with the title (common sense with a twist)... 1. If there is a single word that explains why the human race has never reached its full potentia…

  • OK, I promised a double dose of quotes from the weekly paper... "I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."--Thomas Fuller "Logic is the anatomy of thought."--John Locke "He who is contented is rich."--Lao-tzu …

  • Steely Dan have always been one of my absolute favorite musical artists. They're the absolute antithesis of a typical rock band--in their early days, they almost never toured, they incorporate jazz elements into much of…

  • Gardens are beautiful. I LOVE to walk through them. Admire them. Eat produce from them. Pick flowers from them. Compliment people on them. But I hate gardening! I hear people can spend HOURS tending gardens. How?…

  • Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.~ Shirley LordThere is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, thecreativity you bring to your life and the lives of th…

  • DOUBLE quotes this week! I thought I'd miss the ones from last week's paper, but there was ONE copy left...so you, O reader, are fortunate indeed... "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The oppos…

  • While suturing a laceration on the hand of a 90-year-old man, the doctor asked his patient how he thought George W. Bush was doing as President. The old man said, "Ya know, Bush is a post turtle." Not knowing what the o…

  • I'm reminded of one of my favorite tunes, Mose Allison's "Your Mind Is On Vacation". For any who haven't heard him, Mose is a TRIP!...he's about 70-something, plays piano like there's no tomorrow, and writes the witties…

  • Back at work today after a week of vacation! I'm glad to see some of my friends here...but wish I was still ON vacation!!....

  • "The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ".....Oscar Wilde....(of all people!)

  • What, if anything, is too important to be joked about?

  • What is the greatest invention of the last 1000 years? I nominate printing or electricity....

  • steganography (ste-GUH-nog-ruh-fee) noun Secret communication by hiding the existence of message.A couple of examples of steganography: shrinking the secret text (by repeated use of a photocopy machine) until it's the …

  • A good joke, especially for those of you who're women........ A woman gives birth to a baby and, afterwards, the doctor comes in and he says, "I have to tell you something about your baby."The woman sits up in bed and s…

  • An unexpected moment of wonder and beauty. We were wandering around the MSU campus doing official get-the-daughter-settled-into-her-dorm stuff. We had to go to the registrar's office. RIGHT outside the building, there…

  • Not much original writing this week, I fear....but here are some good quotes.... Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidenc…

  • piliform (PIL-i-form) adjective Having the form of a hair.[From Neo-Latin piliformis, from pili- (hair) + -form.] "As movie time approaches, you're satisfied that since the theater is sparsely populated, nobody wil…

  • Not much to post...got the daughter unit's stuff all put into her broom closet, I mean room! AND I managed to hit the front fender of the car on a post at the boy unit's apt complex. I need a vacation....oh, wait...thi…

  • Hi, fellow Xangaphiles! I just spent 2 days at a friend's house near Lansing, camping in the front yard. It's the first time in about 3 years we've used the tent! I set it up in the yard earlier this week so I'd remem…

  • I shamelessly confess that I stole these questions from anogete, who got 'em from someone who reads her site...but they're mine 'cause they have my responses! So answer any or all...or steal them for yourselves... 1)…

  • As you may recall, the in-office terms of most Presidents are given a name sometime after the President leaves office. For example: Roosevelt's was "The New Deal" Johnson's was "The Great Society" Reagan's was …

  • idiolect (ID-ee-uh-lekt) nounLanguage usage pattern unique to a person.[From Greek idio- (personal, peculiar) + dialect (language unique toa group of people).]"See the unique way you put words together? That's your idiol…

  • This quote is from NANCY REAGAN, of all people!..... "A woman is like a teabag-only in hot water do you realize how strong she is." ...or until you watch a woman giving birth. Weaker sex?!? I think not!......

  • W. H. Auden JUST for you, VeryModern!..... "Out on the lawn I lie in bed/Conspicuous Vega overhead"-- from Look, Stranger!

  • If you were at a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner & you found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?

  • My first major crush. I remember her well! A little background is needed here. It was the 1968-1969 school year. I turned 13 years old. My parents went through a bitter divorce (and later in the year, my mom died). …

  • OK, I missed a wonderful quote yesterday when I posted them...and it was from Buckminster Fuller, too! Among other things, he wrote Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth & invented the geodesic dome... "When I am wo…

  • More musical meanderings... Born 2B Blue, as performed by Steve Miller (y'know, the Fly Like an Eagle guy...)-- It's the title track to what's probably Steve's weirdest LP...the entire thing is cover versions of songs t…

  • Time again for quotes, boys and girls...since it's Tuesday! These are all courtesy of the Troy-Somerset Gazette... "The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with no…

  • "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."--Aldous Huxley

  • "Music has charms they say, but in some people's hands it becomes a savage beast, can't they control it? Why don't they hold it back? And I'm brutalized by bass and terrorized by treble, I'm open to change my mood but I …

  • Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women? Questions 1 & 2, women!

  • Now it's LATE Sunday night. Which means ironing clothes for work tomorrow in a few minutes, then bedtime. I only have another week 'til it's vacation time again, though. NO alarm clocks. NO " business casual" junk! …

  • Well, I was going to say it's Saturday...but here in Michigan, it's now SUNDAY! Saturday was nice & relaxing....the usual household chores, then friends came over. Not to mention barbecued ribs and pasta salad and …

  • OK, I'm gonna find one from the book of questions re love & sex.... Thinking of all the ways your partner differs from you as a person, what one difference do you treasure the most? As an absent-minded Aquarian and…

  • WELL, that last little post certainly generated a lot of discussion and comments and props!...thanks, new & dedicated readers! I'm perusing the Book of Questions (by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.) as I write to find another …

  • If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?

  • The Thermodynamics of Hell The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam paper: "Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat), or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answe…

  • Hmmm.....hard to say WHAT's gonna be posted today! The mind is running through all sorts o' thoughts.... My father would've been 70 years old today, were he still alive. I can't imagine him at that age, probably becau…

  • Hello...hello...hello....is there anybody out there?.....thank you, Pink-Floyd-song-in-my-head....

  • Today my son is 19. How did so much time go by so fast?!? I'll call him later after he's home from work (he lives w/his mom). I think Tuesday will be official quote day here. The local weekely newspaper has someone (…

  • Those of you who've been regular readers know that awhile ago, I published a paean to those mechanical poems in motion, Bugatti automobiles. The link that follows will take you to a page showing one that I got to look a…

  • How unlike me not to post on here, even on the weekend! It turned out to be a really busy one. I spent Saturday patching a chimney, painting porches, trimming the yard, touching up the house (it's creamy yellow with da…

  • Hmmm....maybe this quote helps answer my questions... "No. We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnet…

  • Baba Ram Dass-Be Here Now Church of What's Happening Now OK, so what IS happening now? Is the universe unfolding as it should? What's going on (thank you, Marvin Gaye!) in this very moment as I type? Synchronicity t…

  • More good quotes.... I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, t…

  • This will show my own political leanings...I can't resist posting... This is a poem made up entirely of actual quotes from George W. Bush. The quotes have been arranged only for aesthetic purposes, by Washington Post w…

  • Numbers in the news... 294,000,000,000,000 miles....the distance the TV signal of the first "I Love Lucy" episode has traveled since it debuted in 1951. 1,400,000,000 gallons...the amount of beer drunk by Germans in th…

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