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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 9:17 pm
Opera and (Google) Chrome are other options for web browsers. Put Opera on there and watch the hubby's eyes bulge. I have FIVE internet browsers on my machine, lol. I just tried them out as they came into existence and never uninstalled them.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 10:19 pm
We just instituted standardized testing in Ontario a few years ago. It tests 2 academic areas Math and English (both reading and writing). They test in Grades 3, 6 and 9. Like you they publish all the schools scores. In some schools here their is a huge failure rate because we have no funded lunch programs in most schools (kids provide their own) and in some schools especially in Toronto their are something like 98 percent of the kids who need ESL programs. In high schools some of the schools have cafeteria's with hot/cold menus however, most kids can't afford the costs so a lot of schools cut them out to save money.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, May 07, 2009 - 10:47 pm
people who take advantage of you. long story short. told this guy at school he could borrow a book if he couldn't find any other book anywhere else. ultimately, he just relied on me to supply him with the book. wrote my 6 page paper today on the book and not happy with it. telling him tomorrow that i'll meet up with him on sunday and give it to him (since he said he would write it sunday night).
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 9:32 am
If you know he is taking advantage of you, why are you letting him to do it? You are the only one that has the power to stop it.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 9:50 am
dandelions
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:02 am
grooch,i actually am going to tell him that i need the book until sunday and if he wants to meet up on sunday and get the book that is fine, otherwise he's sol. i never thought he was that type of guy, because i have had him in other classes, but apparently he is. so i'm not letting him take advantage of me. and huk, dandelions? what??
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:06 am
I'm griping about dandlions. I.hate.them.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:11 am
we call those flowers and now peacefully co-exist! LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:26 am
It's not the flower part that bugs me so much. The leaves on the bottom smoosh the grass and make it look like there are patches all over the place. I've had them pretty much under control these past few years, but none of my neighbors do, so they're trying to get back onto MY lawn. I will slay those (dande)lions if it's the last thing I do!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:30 am
LOL
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:32 am
ah okay huk. i get it.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 2:51 pm
Huk same thing here. Hubby fighting the dandelion war. We have very few but house across the street welcomes them with joy and abandon! We've lived here 2 years and last week was the first time I saw them mowing the lawn. It is usually just covered with leaves or dandelions.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 3:36 pm
Dandelions are beautiful flowers. Their leaves are medicinal. Dandelion tea works wonders on diabetics to lower their blood sugar. They are truly a gift from nature. DO NOT KILL THEM. USE THEM. 
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 3:37 pm
haha. dog you reminded me of a robin williams skit when he was talking about umps being high on cocaine and saying "don't steal home, share it". i know this has nothing to do with what you were talking about...i just thought it was hilarious. i'll leave now.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 3:50 pm
There are enough dandelions in the world that I think it's just fine if you want to kill the ones in your grass that kill or take nutrients away from your beautiful lawn.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:01 pm
Hukd, you know weeds such as dandelions are only "flowers where we don't want them", right?! Hey, escapee, how are you sweetie? I wish I could be on here more often. Today I have actually posted on 4 or 5 topics! I have a 4-day weekend because the medical director has a dental appointment on Monday, so I have to take Monday off and work with her on her make-up day, Friday next week, although I usually have Fridays off since we went to four 10's. You know, the raises really sucked this year, but I do have a boss who tells me every single day, more than once, and in front of other staff and patients, "I don't know what I'd do without you." That actually, somehow, makes it worth it! When I had to go to the hospital, she called the E.R. and told them to take extra special care of me and she even came to the hospital to visit me! (She is not on staff at that hospital, so it's not like she was already there.) I remember the a-hole at the golf course and the doctor who hired me and fired me before I even started because his staff wanted him to hire someone else....well, I guess that is why things happen for a reason! I love living here and I love my job, even though I swear under my breath and sigh and say, "Oh, my dog!" a thousand times a day
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:07 pm
Sorry Dogdoc, no dandelion tea for me, I'm a Nestle's Quick girl! But I do realize that dandelions can determine whether we like butter, lol.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:08 pm
Tabbyking! I am good. We miss you here. I have a four day weekend too, but mine isn't a vacay....surgery on monday and rest time on Tuesday then back to the old grind. Yes, everything happens for a reason. ROFLMAO Hukd! I hadn't thought about the dandelion/butter thing in years. My sister told me it was if you like boys. LOL. My chin did turn yellow, and cousin said NO it's if you like BUTTER.......i was so confused.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:23 pm
huk: will you then call yourself "the dandelion slayer"? you had to know this was coming. lol
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:37 pm
Why yes, I think I should (hee hee, I actually did think of that after I wrote that post)

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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 4:55 pm
lol wonder how your new name would be be shortened.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 5:34 pm
I suppose anything other than Coach would be o.k. with me 
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 7:25 pm
Huk you got it all wrong again! You hold a buttercup under your chin to see if you like butter.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 15, 2009 - 9:26 pm
My gripe tonight is rude people. And cell phones. Rude people using cell phones. Caleb had a concert tonight. These kids, all of them, have worked so hard to learn their music. Everything from Greensleves to the Beatles to a song I can't remember the name of but required 3 or 4 different groups to play different parts at the same time. One of the beg. students worked his butt off to learn Let it Be, not just the guitar part but the lyrics so he could sing while he and the rest of the kids played the music. 2 of the advanced students worked and worked memorizing music and learning words to several different songs for solos...they played and sang with no music sheets or lyrics or anything. The kids were awesome. There a huge improvement for the beginners from the Christmas concert. Several played and sang, and the ones I mentioned above, they were just all wonderful. However, halfway through the beginners complicated song, the one they've been working on for months and has finally come together, the guy behind us starts texting (and recieving texts) like mad. Several of us turned to stare and "shhh" or "do you have to do that now?" and he just kept going. He finally got up and walked outside two songs later. Gee thanks. Then during one of the advanced kids solos, he'd memorized the music, played with no sheets, and sang, halfway through his first song, a cell phone starts ringing. Look around as it keeps going and it's a lady across the room from us, rather than at least looking embarrassed and muting her phone, she keeps staring at the damn thing until it stops ringing then puts it back in her purse. Poor kid was so flustered he got tripped up in the middle of his song, stops and waits til the phone stops ringing, then politely (far more politely and mature than I'd have been) says, "excuse me" and started right back where he left off. How freaking hard is it to put your cell on vibrate or turn it off for something like this? These kids work their butts off, they only get a few times a year to show off what they've learned in this type of setting, and during their own concert they can't even be the center of attention among families and friends! The really sucky part...the teacher had decided to split up his music students and have several different concerts (guitar one night, percussion/wind a different night, and choir another) so that the concerts would be shorter and parents would only have to be there for their kids stuff. Lasted less than an hour and can't go that long without a phone.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 2:18 am
Rude! Jeez!
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