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wincey
20 yrs ago
I tuned in just to watch the odometer turn over. What is it about zeros that gets us so excited?
Now I have to go back under my piles of to-dos and taxes and stuff. I'll emerge at some point to watch the remnants of t…
wincey
20 yrs ago
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Until I finish my taxes, at least! In case anyone's looking for me, I'm quietly tearing my hair out over here.
wincey
20 yrs ago
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wincey
20 yrs ago
I didn't know the details of the McDonald's case, but it doesn't surprise me if the tort "reform" jackasses were spreading false information. I remember McDonald's having insanely hot coffee and needing to wait a long ti…
wincey
20 yrs ago
You don't have to look for the book. It's an online encyclopedia. Just go to the site and look up the word, and it'll be right there for you.
Another good place to look is dictionary.com -- type in the word and there…
wincey
20 yrs ago
And that's exactly why we have these incredibly stupid product warnings. Not for the user, but to try to keep the companies from being liable for injury, etc. Of course, it reminds me of that Seinfeld episode ... but eve…
Conventions and Meetings
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St. Louis Convention Agenda - As Given To Me By Sonora
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How many people are planning to attend?
wincey
20 yrs ago
It would be fun to go, but I can't possibly. I wonder how many people are expected?
wincey
20 yrs ago
that the parents were only responsible up to the point of extreme drunkenness. And that parents should in no way participate in roughhousing and horseplay, because they wouldn't be acting like responsible parents under t…
Chit-Chat
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Who Is You Favotrite Religion/Spirituality Author
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Gregory Bateson and Roy A. Rappaport
wincey
20 yrs ago
And, as GoryDetails said, Mark Twain.
wincey
20 yrs ago
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I dropped this book in what I thought might be an awkward spot -- the front office/shop of a storage place -- and then assumed it was either just sitting there, or long gone into nowheresville. OK, it hasn't been *that…
Chit-Chat
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Questions for the Catholics out there--what does this mean?
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Here's a Catholic encyclopedia
wincey
20 yrs ago
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
It'll be handy for me too as I recently read my first Brother Cadfael without looking many things up (except some terms about agricultre, etc.).
wincey
20 yrs ago
and, by golly, he *was* around throughout my childhood too -- as long ago as that seems now. No wonder he felt so comfortable to me. I didn't realize that he had passed away in 1994 at the age of 75. But it all makes sen…
wincey
20 yrs ago
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over and over and over ... and what fun it was! Looking for Gold Bug was a riot! I don't think they were around when I was a kid, exactly, although I seem to recall Richard Scarry's images from my early days. In any case…
Book Talk
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April 7- What are you reading?
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Little House on the Prairie and a little Lemony Snicket diary
wincey
20 yrs ago
Well, the diary is a blank book with hilarious quotations from the various Snicket books (god, I love those books!). This little journal sets just the right tone for what I need to write in it. Anyone else familiar with …
wincey
20 yrs ago
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Seems that fans of "The Music Man" are going off on a tangent here :) -- but, on the other hand, it could be that I instinctively took after Marian the Librarian in my childhood. Except for the part where I look and sin…
wincey
20 yrs ago
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LOL! I love your clever suggestions, everyone!
"Traveling" seems good, although sometimes people also request traveling books. I think it's a problem of not setting filters, or not noticing filters.
Meanwhile, this…
wincey
20 yrs ago
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LOL!!!
One of my favorite movies of all time :D
"One Grecian urrrrrrrrn ...."
wincey
20 yrs ago
A friend of mine sat on one once, accidentally. It was pretty awful, and slug-stuff doesn't like to come out of clothes.
wincey
20 yrs ago
To do:
Buy a LOT of bug spray
wincey
20 yrs ago
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I'm reading Little House on the Prairie for the first time in my life ... very exciting! Indians are going into the house, the dog is freaking out, the girls are scared to death. And then 40 pages are missing. Argh!
S…
wincey
20 yrs ago
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According to everyone I've heard with the problem. Is Bill Gates mad at us?
Chit-Chat
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Favorite geeks (starting with BillSmith, who was outed recently by FSR44))
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Re: Wow! Speaking for all of us Poindexters...
wincey
20 yrs ago
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I was probably the female Poindexter so I was trying to be invisible.
But I'm here now, bay-bee! ;-)
wincey
20 yrs ago
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Do you think Microsoft is pissed off at BookCrossing for some reason?
