Archive through August 12, 2002
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Archive through August 12, 2002
Hillbilly | Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:55 pm     ...that depends...is it working?! |
Drpepper | Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 10:58 pm     Yea, you did good! My bestest friend is called hillbilly, so that was pretty easy. |
Oregonfire | Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:00 pm     Here's one of my favorite poems, no special reason for posting it. Spring and Fall: To a Young Child MARGARET, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. And yet you will weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for. Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Cyn | Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:23 pm     goodnight Oregonfire and Clubhouse. here's Sun Tzu's quote rewritten. it's in Tzu's words in its entirety in the Christian thread. if you know yourself and know your partner, your relationship will flourish. if you know yourself but don't know your partner, the road will be rocky. if you know neither yourself nor your partner, your relationship doesn’t stand a chance. |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:11 am     These are wonderful!! Thanks for sharing. |
Maesin | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:01 am     I like this thread...lots of good, quiet, happy stuff. Here's one of my favs. that makes me smile: A green isle in the sea, love A fountain and a shrine All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. E. A. Poe "To One in Paradise" I am also a HUGE Robert Frost fan, thanks to my mother, so I will read his stuff sometimes when I need a pick me up. I remember earlier in this thread (I think) someone mentioned the Tao of Pooh, love that book! Very calming. |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:06 am     Dang! I get all irritated last night, and "zenning out" wasn't helping. SO I leave. And right after I do, Fluffy wanders in with her cat and all sorts of treats. Darn it! |
Twiggyish | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:07 am     Oh don't worry. We're used to lively debates. Do you remember the Gun Control thread last year? (I hope that one never returns) |
Oregonfire | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:12 am     You mean the thread that just wouldn't die? Nooooooooooooooo....! I don't have a problem with lively debate threads, but when the same thing starts being said over and over again, it gets a bit stale for me. Guess I don't have to read threads like that in their entirety, but I always do! |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:22 am     Ahhhhhhhhhh... Breathe in, breathe out... Yes, Oregonfire, I agree! There are a couple of people who insist on jumping in to various threads and inciting riots. I'm pretty well ticked off at some of these people now. Yes, it's OK to disagree with views being discussed. But to continually bring up the same freakin' views -- within threads wherein that wasn't even being discussed -- is just, well... it's just... Breathe in, breathe out... Gotta go find my calming lavendar oils... |
Mystery | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:25 am     There are threads I don't read for their content, and posters I don't read for their content and their style (can't stand the ones who type like this..never bothering to separate their posts into coherent thoughts and sentences..like there aren't enough posts that I miss every day without spending time cringing my way through this kind of stuff..)
Costa, I apologized over in the Arnie thread for not reading the whole thing before I responded to something (not that you were talking about me back then, because I hadn't yet intruded!) I'm loving the poetry and soothing images in this thread! |
Fluffybbw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:32 am     Costacat, I am sending Bart, (my cat) in right now for you, also, here's some nice fresh fruit, some Baskin Robbins ice cream, and some lovely herb teas, I hope this helps!  |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:33 am     Hey, sorry for throwing a party in your thread last night, Oregon - it was too early to open the late night bar and the crowd needed somewhere to hang out. Tried to get the hanyacks redirected to the watering hole as soon as I could reasonably open for late night. You did a good job, too of getting the zen back on track. Thanks. |
Fluffybbw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:35 am     Opps, I'm sorry Goddess, did I just throw the Zen off again? |
Mystery | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:35 am     What's a hanyack? I promise to use the word three times and make it mine, if you tell me. |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:38 am     Spelling is phonetic - my German grandparents always called us hanyacks, my parents too - sort of an affectionate German word for misbehaved brats whom we love dearly. (Ps they called us slavenhannis', too, which is substantially less affectionate) |
Oregonfire | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:39 am     No problem, Goddess! This has pretty much become the "runoff" thread. What am I still doing in here anyway? I feel like I have a hangover without having any cocktails. Barely got any sleep last night because that was a big spider nesting over my head and it was freaking me out. I noticed she (the spider) moved over this morning to a different part of the wall, which was at least conscientious. (the "No spiders" thread?) |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:40 am     Girl, if there's a spider in my room it's got to go before I get any rest. I can totally relate. |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:42 am     Actually, don't we have some Yiddish-speaking boardmembers? They would probably recognize those two words and be able to give me more accurate translations and spellings. |
Rnr60 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:42 am     (temporarily out of lurk mode to apologize) Costa, everyone else, I was involved in the posting in the Marc vs Gerry thread last night. I lost my temper, said some things I probably shouldn't have posted on this board, regardless of my feelings at the time. I apologize to you, and others if I made you uncomfortable. (back to lurking) |
Oregonfire | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:47 am     Don't worry, Rnr60. We're all just one big dysfunctional family around here. No apologies needed! ;) |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:47 am     Rnr60, I apologize too. I had laid off that thread entirely for a number of reasons, but last night that thread was the only thing going. So I read it, and became increasingly irritated with the entire thing. Unfortunately, Rnr60, you showed up around the time I had finally had enough. Wood's used to me taking off on him (although not like that, and he knows I only flash for a minute and seriously don't bite) but you're not, and under different circumstances I would have spoken to you very differently or probably not at all - why was any of that my business, anyway. I apologize and I'm hope we're going to be friends from here on out. |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:59 am     Mystery... I didn't go back, but I did wanna thank you for your apology (and you're right... it wasn't YOU! <grin>). Rnr60... I'm pretty sure I wasn't tweaked at you, either. More just a general overall "gee whiz, you guys!" Could you drop the bone, for pete's sake! I'm sure none of my comments were intended towards you. What got me going today was that a totally innocuous thread was taken over, and started to become the whole Marcie vs Gerry vs clean vs unclean vs bash vs don't bash vs... whew! I ran outta steam there! Anyways, thank you all for being so SOOTHING! I'm ever so much more calm now. Fluffy's kitty on my lap (my two are home a-snoozin'), and B&R ice cream at hand. I mean, does it get much better 'n this? Maybe we ought to start up a new thread called "Miscellaneous Apologies." And anyone can go in there to apologize for unintentionally being an idiot (or, maybe intentionally being one! <BIG grin>). So, to borrow from Goddess (from whom I seem to borrow a lot)... can we all just be friends? |
Goddessatlaw | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:01 am     Costa, you read my mind - I was just going to suggest an apology thread to Oregon so we could keep the karma on track in the zen thread. |
Rnr60 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 11:01 am     Thanks for understanding. I'm usually much more laid back- my style is more like the Parody thread I started. But the more I read, the more irritated I became, and it seemed like I saw the same posts in every thread I looked at. Call it temporary insanity caused by excessive BB3 consumption. |
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