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![[*]](./images/iconic/default_icon.gif) posted on 7-22-2006 at 03:35 PM |
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You've Got To Hide Your Spam Away
A tribute to the Beatles.
New spam thread. Move when necessary.
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| posted on 7-22-2006 at 04:40 PM |
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lol. you're weird!
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.
~Irish Prayer
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Mad-Eye
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| posted on 7-22-2006 at 04:42 PM |
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I think we've established that I should always be the official thread namer.
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| posted on 7-22-2006 at 04:47 PM |
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What? You don't like my names? I thought I've been doing a great job! 
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.
~Irish Prayer
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:31 AM |
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Here's the new one. Have fun.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.
~Irish Prayer
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:43 AM |
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A new spam thread. So, what were we talking about? Movies, knitting, falling asleep at a tv. Yep. My dad falls asleep during Bond. It seems
impossible, but it's true.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:48 AM |
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I don't know if I've done that. I don't think I have but I usually have a movie playing while I sleep during the day. It drowns out normal house
noise... like girls fighting... so I can fall asleep during the best of shows. My husband loves monster movies. Those, I can not sleep through. I get
very upset when he wakes me with one. But now that we have the new TV in the other room, perhaps he will let me sleep in peace.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:51 AM |
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I really don't watch any monster movies. Not my thing, I guess. I tend to like the ones where all ends well and/or there's a moral, lol. Call me
provincial, but I like feeling happy after a bout of entertainment.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:54 AM |
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Me too. I see enough pain and suffering. I want my movies and books to have happy endings! Screw reality! lol
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 12:56 AM |
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Lol. It's very nice when we defy reality. One of the artists last night, Jack Ingram, was talking about "reality tv." He said the first reality
show he watched was The Bachelor: 1 guy in a room with 25 hot girls, all of them trying to pair up with him. He made it clear that that is nowhere
close to reality, lol.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:08 AM |
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Yeah I see his point. I don't watch them much. My husband likes Survivor so I watch it some but not that much.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
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may God turn their hearts,
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:10 AM |
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I've seen bits and pieces here and there, but nothing that I really like. I prefer my psuedo-reality Monk. Monk's my hero.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:20 AM |
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I watch the CSIs, NCIS, Without A Trace, Law & Order.... and anything else along that line. But I like House... and one that I can't think of the
name. It's a pair of brothers that hunt demons.
Believe it or not, I don't watch much TV. lol
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
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may God turn their hearts,
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:25 AM |
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I don't watch much tv, either. I've recently started watching House, and there's a new show on USA in between Monk and House on Friday nights:
Psych. It's interesting. I don't know what that other show is you're talking about. But, other than those things I mentioned, I watch a lot of
HGTV.
In my knitting magazine (yes, it sounds pathetic, but I don't have a grandma who can pass on her knitting patterns to me, and I want some projects I
can do later) there's an article about a group of women who had been affected by breast cancer, found each other on a forum, and last year knitted
235 pink scarves to give to breast cancer patients in October. These scarves were knit by 40 different people. That sounds so neat. If I can get an
address for participating, I think I'll do this and share it with my friends that knit. Isn't that such an awesome thing to do? They even give us
four simple scarf patterns in the magazine so that we might be able to take part.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:29 AM |
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That is a great idea. I'm sure it will cheer someone up.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 01:37 AM |
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I certainly hope so. The patterns look so simple (and are marked as beginner and easy levels, no intermediate or experienced). I think I can manage to
do at least one. They look nice, too.
Random thought, now: I found a pattern at ... umm ... somewhere for knitting Pygmy Puffs. I thought those would be so hilarious. I saw them, and the
first thing I thought was that Mad-Eye needs one, lol. 
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lol. you think? Her cats would like them  are they like pom-poms?
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Pretty much. They're so funky looking. Basically it looks like a koosh ball, only knit instead of being rubbery, and you glue those weird little eyes
you can buy at a craft store that have the black pupil rolling around inside. They're so funky looking. But I said that already.
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 02:02 AM |
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when I was a teen a friend made me a jar full. And she called them warm fuzzies.
Have you ever heard the story about warm fuzzies and cold pricklies?
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 02:04 AM |
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No, I haven't. Story time! Tell me the story while I look for that silly pattern ...
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This is one of the many editions:
A Warm Fuzzy Tale
by Claude M. Steiner
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there lived two happy people called Tim and Maggie with their two children, John and Lucy. To understand how happy
they were you have to understand how things were in those days.
You see in those happy days everyone was given a small, soft Fuzzy Bag when born. Any time a person reached into this bag they were able to pull out a
Warm Fuzzy. Warm Fuzzies were very much in demand because whenever someone was given a Warm Fuzzy it made them feel warm and fuzzy all over.
In those days it was very easy to get Warm Fuzzies. Anytime that somebody felt like it, he might walk up to you and say, "I'd like to have a Warm
Fuzzy." You would then reach into your bag and pull out a Fuzzy the size of a child’s hand. As soon as the Fuzzy saw the light of day it would smile
and blossom into a large, shaggy, Warm Fuzzy. When you laid the Warm Fuzzy on the person's head, shoulder or lap it would snuggle up and melt right
against their skin and make them feel good all over.
People were always asking each other for Warm Fuzzies, and since they were always given freely, getting enough of them was never a problem. There were
always plenty to go around, and so everyone was happy and felt warm and fuzzy most of the time.
One day a bad witch who made salves and potions for sick people became angry because everyone was so happy and feeling good and no one was buying
potions and salves. The witch was very clever and devised a very wicked plan. One beautiful morning while Maggie was playing with her daughter the
witch crept up to Tim and whispered in his ear,
"See here, Tim, look at all the Fuzzies that Maggie is giving to Lucy. You know, if she keeps it up she is going to run out and then there won't be
any left for you!"
Tim was astonished. He turned to the witch and asked, "Do you mean to tell me that there isn't a Warm Fuzzy in our bag every time we reach into
it?".
And the witch answered, "No, absolutely not, and once you run out, that's it. You don't have any more." With this the witch flew away on a broom,
laughing and cackling all the way.
Tim took this to heart and began to notice every time Maggie gave away a Warm Fuzzy. He got very worried because he liked Maggie's Warm Fuzzies very
much and did not want to give them up. He certainly did not think it was right for Maggie to be spending all her Warm Fuzzies on the children and
other people.
Tim began to complain or sulk when he saw Maggie giving Warm Fuzzies to somebody else, and because Maggie loved him very much, she stopped giving Warm
Fuzzies to other people as often, and reserved most of them for him.
The children watched this and soon began to get the idea that it was wrong to give Warm Fuzzies any time you were asked or felt like it. They too
became very careful. They would watch their parents closely and whenever they felt that one of their parents was giving too many Fuzzies to others,
they felt jealous and complained and sometimes even had a tantrum. And even though they found a Warm Fuzzy every time they reached into their bag they
began to feel guilty whenever they gave them away so they reached in less and less and became more and more stingy with them.
Before the witch, people used to gather in groups of three, four or five, never caring too much who was giving Warm Fuzzies to whom. After the coming
of the witch, people began to pair off and to reserve all their Warm Fuzzies for each other, exclusively. When people forgot to be careful and gave a
Warm Fuzzy to just anybody they worried because they knew that somebody would probably resent sharing their Warm Fuzzies.
People began to give less and less Warm Fuzzies, and felt less warm and less fuzzy. They began to shrivel up and, occasionally, people would even die
from lack of Warm Fuzzies. People felt worse and worse and, more and more, people went to the witch to buy potions and salves even though they didn't
really seem to work.
Well, the situation was getting very serious indeed. The bad witch who had been watching all of this didn't really want the people to die (since dead
people couldn't buy his salves and potions), so a new plan was devised.
Everyone was given, free of charge, a bag that was very similar to the Fuzzy Bag except that this one was cold while the Fuzzy Bag was warm. Inside of
the witch's bag were Cold Pricklies. These Cold Pricklies did not make people feel warm and fuzzy; in fact they made them feel cold and prickly
instead. But the Cold Pricklies were better than nothing and they did prevent peoples' backs from shriveling up.
So, from then on, when somebody asked for a Warm Fuzzy, people who were worried about depleting their supply would say, "I can't give you a Warm
Fuzzy, but would you like a Cold Prickly instead?"
Sometimes, two people would walk up to each other, thinking they maybe they could get a Warm Fuzzy this time, but one of them would change his mind
and they would wind up giving each other Cold Pricklies instead. So, the end result was that people were not dying anymore but a lot of people were
very unhappy and feeling very cold and prickly indeed.
The situation got very complicated since the coming of the witch because there were fewer and fewer Warm Fuzzies around and Warm Fuzzies which used to
be free as air, became extremely valuable.
This caused people to do all sorts of things in order to get Warm Fuzzies. People who could not find a generous partner had to buy their Warm Fuzzies
and had to work long hours to earn the money.
Some people became "popular" and got a lot of Warm Fuzzies without having to give any back. These people would then sell their Warm Fuzzies to
people who were "unpopular" and needed them to feel that life was worth living.
Another thing which happened was that some people would take Cold Pricklies--which were everywhere and freely available-and coated them white and
fluffy so that they almost looked like Warm Fuzzies. These fake Warm Fuzzies were really Plastic Fuzzies, and they caused additional problems.
For instance, two or more people would get together and freely give each other Plastic Fuzzies. They expected to feel good, but they came away feeling
bad instead. People got very confused never realizing that their cold, prickly feelings were because they had been given a lot of Plastic Fuzzies.
So the situation was very, very dismal and it all started because of the coming of the witch who made people believe that some day, when least
expected, they might reach into their Warm Fuzzy Bag and find no more.
Not long ago, a young woman with big hips came to this unhappy land. She seemed not to have heard about the bad witch and was not worried about
running out of Warm Fuzzies. She gave them out freely, even when not asked. They called her the Hip Woman and disapproved of her because she was
giving the children the idea that they should not worry about running out of Warm Fuzzies. The children liked her very much because they felt good
around her and they began to follow her example giving out Warm Fuzzies whenever they felt like it.
This made the grownups very worried. To protect the children from depleting their supplies of Warm Fuzzies they passed a law. The law made it a
criminal offense to give out Warm Fuzzies in a reckless manner or without a license. Many children, however, seemed not to care; and in spite of the
law they continued to give each other Warm Fuzzies whenever they felt like it and always when asked. Because they were many, many children, almost as
many as grown ups, it began to look as if maybe they would have their way.
As of now its hard to say what will happen. Will the grownups laws stop the recklessness of the children?
Are the grownups going to join with the Hip Woman and the children in taking a chance that there will always be as many Warm Fuzzies as needed?
Will they remember the days their children are trying to bring back when Warm Fuzzies were abundant because people gave them away freely ?
The struggle spread all over the land and is probably going on right were you live. If you want to, and I hope you do, you can join by freely giving
and asking for Warm Fuzzies and being as loving and healthy as you can.
© 1969 Copywrite by Claude Steiner
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
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may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
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that we may know them by their limping.
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I like warm fuzzies. Warm fuzzies are nice. I try not to hand out cold pricklies. And, I have finally found the pattern for which I was searching: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#static:crafts/knitting/pygmypuffs
They don't have googly eyes, like I thought I remembered, but they're still very fun and will probably be very warm and fuzzy.
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I can't get to them. They're on TLC right?
I like warm fuzzies too.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
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that we may know them by their limping.
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Ah. got them. They are cute.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
When it's all over, it's not who you were but whether you made a difference. -- Bob Dole
May those who love us love us,
and those who do not love us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may He turn their ankles
that we may know them by their limping.
~Irish Prayer
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| posted on 7-24-2006 at 02:53 AM |
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See? They're adorable! But one of them is blue there. I thought Pygmy Puffs were just pinks and purples.
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