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Friday Open!

  

by: newpioneer

Fri Jun 04, 2010 at 10:26:04 AM EDT


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so... what's on your mind on this grand Friday???
newpioneer :: Friday Open!

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Friday Open! | 45 comments
Salsa! (15.00 / 5)


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
Oops... (9.50 / 4)
Thanks!

I think someone forgot something.

(looking around...)

Been distracted this week.  Personal things.  Might not be around much for the next week or three.  Have a great weekend everybody!

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones...

gha, so sorry Jay (13.20 / 5)
I completely forgot that you and Kathleen are just waking up... I'll delete this silliness if ya have something ready to go.  

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
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No, it's okay! (7.50 / 4)
I had nothing, anyways...

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones...
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Oh, and... (8.50 / 4)
The "somebody" who "forgot something" is me...

;)

I usually post these overnight so they come up in the morning.  I just remembered about an hour ago that I didn't put anything up last night, though...

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones...

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Jay (14.20 / 5)
Hope it is something good personal things.....   we want a full report!

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hope all is well (14.00 / 4)
with you jay...
♥~

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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OMG (10.50 / 6)

On Wednesday my mom gets a massage and the massage therapist and I were talking about the oil spill and she said she had heard that North Korea was responsible, this is how I felt.......

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I tried not to laugh, now this morning I am reading over a huff and I saw this......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

More WTF ......... now I have heard it all!!   Pack your bags because you guys in the south are going to FEMA camps!

http://motherjones.com/politic...



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gha (13.00 / 5)
Batshit crazy stuff.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  
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A platune (9.40 / 5)
of alien hibred soldiers drove thru my nayberhood this mornin in 7 black SUV's with darked out windows. They were all staring at me as they drove down my street. It was hard to make them out through them windows, but they all looked kinda like Surra Paylin, except for the ones in the middle SUV looked like Dick Chaney. Dang fly get off my nose then this afternoon I saw a natural gard convoy head south on all the hi-ways. A little while ago black copters began circling my neighborhood. And now I can't seem to get in touch with my skitafrenik and alkaholic family who lives on the gulf.  The round-up has started y'all, and it's headed my way. If I disappear from the site you will know to look for me in the femur camps in Kansus. I'll be the one with the lumina foil overhalls...

p.s. if'n its the rapcher y'all can have my linux laptopper, just don't let the gummint git it ok

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

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gha! (10.20 / 5)
you shur do tawk gud. jess lak teh fowks 'roun chere.
they really wuz a buncha black suv's jus upda street tother day. didja see that there ar-tickle i shewd y'all down b'low chere? dat wuz right nearby. dey had dem airo-planes goin ober da house fer da longest tiyme. row-und n row-und dey went. i dunno why tho. but it shur were fun watchin em

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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LOL (13.60 / 5)
Hey, we can get away with it because we're ridiculing ourselves and our cousins!
Actually I don't really take offense at outsiders criticisms/caricatures either, as long as they are authentic. What REALLY bothers me is when outsiders do it and don't even get close to authentic - thus showing their own ignorance of our ignorance... O:)

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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Aside from y'all (15.00 / 4)
I would never attempt a southern accent or speech pattern: exactly b/c I'm an outsider.

I get to keep y'all, though.  (A) it's much more elegant than youse; and (B) I came by it naturally: I went to journalism camp for high schoolers at the Univ. of Kansas & hung out with some southern students.

Srsly, y'all's comments are VERY funny.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

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You have my blessing! (14.00 / 4)
Glad we hit your funny bone! It's so easy these days to get lost in the heavier emotions, it's good to laugh with each other and to laugh at ourselves...

Please do keep "y'all". It is a great word. However, I must warn you that it IS PLURAL. It is used to refer to two or more people. It is often used incorrectly in movies and such as a greeting to a single individual. It CAN be used to greet a single individual if you know their family and you are specifically asking about the whole bunch of 'em, though. As in "How are y'all doin'?" when you greet the sister of your best friend whose house you've been to and met their mama and daddy and you want to know how the family is doing... The sister of your best friend would properly respond "We're all doin' fine, how's yer mama and them?" She would not respond "I'm doin' good, how're you?" It is not to be used when you greet an individual as an individual and you don't know much about them... It's kinda tricky and it's often done incorrectly in movies and such. When they get it wrong, it makes all us southerners look a little dumber than we really are. :)

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

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& then there's (15.00 / 4)
all of y'all which is slurred together into one word allay'all
when you're speaking to a big mess o' folks, like at thankgiving:
"are allay'all gonna stay out there all night? suppers gettin cold!"

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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all y'all (13.20 / 5)
fireflies out yonder better git to grinnin'!

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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well... (11.40 / 5)
I best git to grinnin' then!

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
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y'all a pickin? (15.00 / 4)
cuz i'm'a grinnin!

(alla y'all be shore to see this'n...run it on up to 00:35)



"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


[ Parent ]
does BR 549 (11.50 / 4)
ring a bell?



"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

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sedtime bories! (12.50 / 4)



"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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oh my! (11.50 / 4)
Goodness gracious child you have hit my bunny fone hith a wammer!
I absolutely daughed for lays when I sirst faw rindercella and it lot me gaughing out goud alain. What a hoot!!

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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LOL (11.00 / 4)
I always knew y'all was plural (so is youse and youns -- you 'uns) but don't think I've ever run into alla y'all before.  bwahahaha

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  
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Friday is so yesterday :) (9.40 / 5)

happy saturday mishima! (14.20 / 5)
hope your weekend is wonderful!

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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bizarre news (5.40 / 5)
from 'round here...

http://www.thestate.com/2010/0...

Investigators in the bizarre rope-dragging of an African-American man's body across 10 miles of Newberry County countryside are focusing on a large weapons cache found inside the suspect's mobile home, officials said Thursday.

Authorities said they are also exploring specific evidence - which they will not discuss - that leads them to believe the shooting death and subsequent dragging of Anthony Hill, 30, of Winnsboro, is a possible hate crime under federal statutes. But they stressed they have made no determination.

the body was found near an elementary school...
the one my kids went to years ago.

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


OMG thats HORRIBLE (14.00 / 4)
what else can I say?

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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yup (10.50 / 4)
really fucked up.
the guy lives just up the road from us, just about 2 miles away.
(we don't know him)
apparently he's dumb as a doorknob.
they found a cache of weapons in his house.

the sherriff here is Very Intense.
in situations like this it's a very good thing.
he had FBI & god knows what else called in.

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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I'm glad they got the guy n/t (13.40 / 5)


"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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Holy Hell, Ria (13.00 / 3)
Lemme guess: guy was a loner/listened to Rush/Fox News addict/certain Obama would deprive him of his guns?

How horrible: so sorry for the poor victim.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

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Ahhhh, yes...it's Friday. (13.80 / 5)
Today is a slower day. Aziza's her usual exuberant self, and I've been enjoying the weather, despite some heavy thunderstorms on occasion.  For some reason, I've got my alltime favorite film more on my mind right now.  It'll be on TV on June 21st, at 8 p. m.  I think I'll let Aziza stay up and watch West Side Story with me.  I've been introducing her to the music by playing the CD soundtrack pretty much every day.  It's hard to tell whether or not Aziza likes it.  Sometimes I wonder what it would've meant for me if I'd watched it as a young kid, when it first came out, or as a younger teenager who was not yet about to graduate from high school.  I'll never know, will I?   Even if I had, there's  no way that my mom would've let me watch West Side Story more than once.  But, you know...maybe the fact that I got to do things later, as a consequence of being so isolated as a kid happened for a reason.  

I watched my younger brother and sister growing up,  I watched my sister's kids growing up (from time to time), and I've also watched my brother and sister-in-law's  young son and daughter growing up, and I've seen, and see them growing up and developing into normal, healthy, and happy kids, which is something that, in a way, I was deprived of.  It kind of sucks, when I think about it, which is why I was such an easy person to bait and scapegoat while growing up, and even now, some people in some circles do that.   If  being "normal" means being more like these people, then I'd rather not be "normal".   Is it any wonder that I display so little concern about the world's problems a lot of the time, and don't wish to get fully involved.  There are times that I feel that I've got my own jonses to catch up to.  

As for my government, I've never thought very highly of it, and I still don't, even now.  

Anyway, back to more positive stuff...my sister's older son is visiting us and we're probably all going out to eat tonight, though I don't know where.

I've invited a couple of my longtime good friends over for a potluck supper and to meet Aziza!  My  family has yet to meet her, and they'll love her if and when they do!

As for the horrific Israeli raid and attack on the Flotilla that was delivering aid and needed goods to Gaza for the Palestinian residents there, I think that it's not enough to end the blockade.  Israel should get the hell out of those Occupied Territories, including Gaza once and for all,  and allow an independent, sovereign Palestinian nation-state to emerge in West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip alongside Israel, and not in place of Israel, the way a good many people want!

Ending their occupation of Gaza, West Bank, and East Jerusalem once and for all would be the best thing for the survival of Israel and for the Palestinians alike, imho!

On another, more positive note, West Side Story (the film) will be coming to the Strand Theatre, out in Clinton, MA, about an hour northwest of where I presently reside, and I'm excited about that, too.  As much as I love WSS, however, my appreciation this great, golden oldie but keeper of a classic is heightened after I see at least one or more newer movies in between, whether I've enjoyed them or not, because my heart always goes back to West Side Story.  So newer movies, whether I've enjoyed them or not, are beneficial, too, although I'm more picky about what newer films I see,  and avoid the mass-produced junk that's constantly played at these overpriced, antiseptic-looking multiplex cinemas that dot the USA's highways and byways and serve as sort of day/evening care centers for parents of underaged kids to drop their kids off when they can't get a babysitter.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I'm cleaning the bathroom today (11.25 / 4)
Got the walls done and half the cabinets and mirrors, so only the other half of the previous, the toilet, sink, and floor left.  So I won't be around much this evening but I'll try not to pull a "Jay".  ;)

Love you Jay.  :)

you can (10.75 / 4)
come clean mine when you're done!

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


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Yours has (9.00 / 3)
to be better than mine was.  It hasn't had a good thorough cleaning in many years.  Heck it hardly ever gets a quick cleaning.  The ceiling might not get a good cleaning for many more years.  That overhead work does my back in real quick.  
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fuggedabout teh ceiling! (12.17 / 6)
I really cleaned the bathroom last week, but J and I just got thru with giving our 9 inside doggies baths... and I'm sure there's hair on the ceiling that will become a permanent part of the decor! now I've gotta take care of our 4 outside doggies and I'm thru with the puppy baths for the next couple of weeks...

looks like Beba just got Juan's bed ALL wet...
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and here's 3 of the "outside" babies (Lucecita's Mama and brother and sister)... just 'cause they won't go in and out of the doggie door!
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm

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nice APOD today (13.75 / 4)
Today's APOD NGC 1275



"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

jamess has a diary up... (12.00 / 4)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

about the coral reefs in florida

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett


I almost don't want to click through... (13.80 / 5)
I am so heartbroken and outraged already.

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
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Have I mentioned that (12.80 / 5)
Haley Barbour (aka Hollow Bubba) is an idiot?

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation
was just watching (13.50 / 4)
Rachel's segment on him... idiot is far too kind

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
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I know, but (15.00 / 4)
If I said what I really thought about him I would probably offend everyone here and a boatload of sailors, too... sigh
Thanks for acknowledging his patheticness, I need the commiseration. I have to listen the dumbfuck all the time. He is such a mushmouth, too. It offends even my deepseated love for the southern dialect.

btw, I haven't mentioned it to you, but Thoreau is a real hero to me. I started reading his stuff around age 14 and he changed me for the better forever. I dig your sig!

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

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:O) (14.00 / 4)
I promise I wouldn't be offended! there's nothing despicable that could be said of Barbour that I wouldn't heartily agree with... of all the bottom feeders in lake republican, he's earned a very special place in the muck!

and on the opposite end of humanity's cerebral spectrum are Emerson and Thoreau! your sig really makes me smile, incessantrevolutions, Emerson is one of my heroes right along with Thoreau.

...The fallacy lay in the immense concession, that the bad are successful; that justice is not done now. The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announcing the presence of the soul; the omnipotence of the will: and so establishing the standard of good and ill, of success and falsehood.

I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day, and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics. I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. But men are better than this theology. Their daily life gives it the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know. That which they hear in schools and pulpits without after-thought, if said in conversation, would probably be questioned in silence. If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement... Compensation, Emerson

...Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a very different season. Take a July night, for instance. About ten o'clock, - when man is asleep, and day fairly forgotten, - the beauty of moonlight is seen over lonely pastures where cattle are silently feeding. On all sides novelties present themselves. Instead of the sun there are the moon and stars, instead of the wood-thrush there is the whip-poor-will, - instead of butterflies in the meadows, fire-flies, winged sparks of fire! who would have believed it? What kind of cool deliberate life dwells in those dewy abodes associated with a spark of fire? ... Night and Moonlight, Thoreau


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
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You're freakin' awesome, dude (13.50 / 4)
Any friend of those passages is a friend of mine.

Though Emerson's sentences can be hard to parse his prose is often majestic and the whole body of his essays are worth rereading many times over, at least for me.

And your Thoreau quote! How absolutely appropriate and on the mark! "...winged sparks of fire!..."

"In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant..." R.W.Emerson - Compensation

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absolutely! (15.00 / 4)
I can't tell ya how many times I've re-read Compensation since first meeting you here. been a few years since I've sat down with Emerson, so I thank you my friend!

Two Rivers Prose, 1856

"Thy voice is sweet, Musketaquid, and repeats the music of the rain, but sweeter is the silent stream which flows ever through thee, as thou through the land.
Thou art shut in thy banks, but the stream I love flows in thy water, and flows through rocks and through the air and through rays of light as well, and through darkness, and through men and women.
I hear and see the inundation and eternal spending of the stream in winter and in summer, in men and animals, in passion and thought. Happy are they who can hear it..."



It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Thoreau ... and, do no harm
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Sitting on the deck at dusk (12.20 / 5)
looking toward those snow-decked mountains in June.

Very beautiful.

And tomorrow morning it's Donner Lake.  

I'm gonna fish the mouth with spinners.

I do not know if I will catch anything, but I am looking forward to introducing myself to the lake.

Donner lake is beautiful... and, of course, tragic.

Cheers, Fire Fly Friends!

Sounds lovely, Laurie! (15.00 / 4)
Will it be strictly catch & release (if you catch something) or will it be dinner (if it's a keeper)?

You and Tahoe have a wonderful time!  Well, sounds like you already are...

Cheers back atcha!

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

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