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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Sunday, April 18, 2004 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. "
- Dennis Wholey

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NEW YORK -- They may be catchy, and they may have been big hits -- but they're also just plain bad.
Blender's editors came up the top 50 "Worst Songs Of All Time." The magazine ranks supposedly rank cuts by Celine Dion, Meat Loaf, Uncle Kracker, The Beatles, Starship -- even Simon and Garfunkel -- using criteria like bad melodies, wretched performances, not making sense, and pomposity.

Topping the list -- the 1985 hit "We Built This City," by Starship. They call "We Built This City" "the truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar."


And in second place, Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" is slammed for representing -- quoting the magazine here -- "every prejudice non-believers have about country: It was trite, it was inane, it was big in trailer parks and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the obese."
That was followed by Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight."

"Rollin"' by Limp Bizkit ranks fourth, followed by "Ice Ice Baby."

Rounding out the top 10 worst songs ever are Huey Lewis and the News with "The Heart of Rock-and-Roll," "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time," "American Life" and "Ebony and Ivory."

At 22 is Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (THE ANGRY AMERICAN.)"

Blender calls it "a fight anthem so vengeful, it makes 'The Star-Spangled Banner' sound like 'Give Peace a Chance.'"

The issue is on newstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, and a week from Tuesday everyplace else.






Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
http://www.premiere.com/article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=1539

The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night
21. Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby
22. Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver
23. Eathan Edwards of The Searchers
24. The Little Tramp of Mabel's Strange Predicament
25. Gordon Gekko of Wall Street
26. E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
27. Marge Gunderson of Fargo
28. Captain Quint of Jaws
29. Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot
30. King Kong of King Kong
31. Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard
32. Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's
33. Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy
34. Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde
35. Dr. Evil of Austin Powers
36. Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction
37. Jake Gittes of Chinatown
38. Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie
40. The Terminator of The Terminator
41. Jane Craig of Broadcast News
42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry
43. Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump
44. Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction
45. Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins
46. John McClane of Die Hard
47. Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate
48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animal House
49. Chance the Gardener of Being There
50. Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
51. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street
52. Howard Beale of Network
53. Ninotchka of Ninotchka
54. Frank Booth of Blue Velvet
55. The Dude of The Big Lebowski
56. Alan Swann of My Favorite Year
57. Tom Powers of The Public Enemy
58. Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity
59. Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now
60. George Bailey of It's a Wonderful Life
61. J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success
62. John Shaft of Shaft
63. Carrie White of Carrie
64. Rocky Balboa of Rocky
65. Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands
66. Navin Johnson of The Jerk
67. Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther
68. Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange
69. Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront
70. Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin
71. Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter
72. Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything
73. Norma Rae of Norma Rae
74. Tony Montana of Scarface
75. Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove
76. Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever
77. Annie Wilkes of Misery
78. "Mad" Max Rockatansky of Mad Max
79. Hans Beckert of M
80. Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon
81. Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment
82. Jack Torrance of The Shining
83. William Cutting of Gangs of New York
84. Darth Vader of Star Wars
85. Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire
86. Melanie Daniels of The Birds
87. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl
88. Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man
89. Sandy Olsson of Grease
90. John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich
91. Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate
92. Dil of The Crying Game
93. Harry Lime of The Third Man
94. Rose Sayer of The African Queen
95. Oda Mae Brown of Ghost
96. Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas
97. Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
98. Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows
99. Kevin McCallister of Home Alone
100. Roger "Verbal" Kint of The Usual Suspects



Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is an accurate description:
the word 'politics'
Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.


Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
EVER WONDER ...

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?



Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good stuff, LadyTex...I'm particularly fond of the 'politics' description...lol ;)

Jhezzie
Member

07-05-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Orange is the new black and Friday is the new Saturday.

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wonder where DH is taking us on vacation??
Some place close? some place far?

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 6:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How exciting!!!

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know - I barely slept last night!! I will find out after 5:00pm. I CAN'T WAIT :-)

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

Since "cleave" is in my name, no WONDER I'm so mixed up!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo


Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindest thing of all. "
- Robert Brault

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar."-Robert Brault

Had to take a peek at this guy after reading Ladytex's quote...he's good :-)


Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This may have been posted before, but I thought it was cute. Took me back...

PEOPLE OVER 30 SHOULD BE DEAD BY NOW!

Here's why...

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, ... and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents.

No one was to blame but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them!

Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good!!!!!

People under 30 are WIMPS !

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 2:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol...I have read this before but it's fantastic!!!

Thanks, Essence :-) ...I'm going to email it to some friends.



Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Rules for Being Human
=========================

1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons.
You are enrolled in an informal school called Life. Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial and error. Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ulltimately "works".

4. A lesson is repeated until learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. You can then go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here."
When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you either love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you.
The answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

~by Cherie Carter-Scott~

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We could learn a lot from crayons:
some are sharp, some are pretty,
some are dull, some have weird names,
and all are different colors....but
they all exist very nicely in the same box. (Unknown)



Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

~Franklin P. Jones~

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
tough times never last
tough people do

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When you flee temptations don't leave a forwarding address

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wooohoooo ;)

Um, unless ya left something nice with temptations...then of course they'll need the address, to send it on to ya.....

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 5:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. "
- Garfield

TGIF!!

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Monday, May 03, 2004 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
- Irish proverb