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Squaredsc

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oh hush mpls. its very easy, go up to the formatting area and look up clipart. and it will come out like this.

Djgirl5235

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
mpls - just type : ) without the space!

I've been thinking of my memories, and I had a wonderful childhood and teen years etc., but only one memory comes to mind:

I would have been 7 or 8 and my brother was 5 or 6. We were sitting at the table having dinner one night. My brother was very small for his age, and had this big shock of blonde hair and an angelic face. Anyway, he looks up from his plate and asks my dad: "What's rape?"

My dad nearly choked on his food, but to give him credit, he swallowed what he had, then very calmly looked at my brother and I and started to explain the intricacies of rape on an 8 & 6 level, not to scare us, but to inform us... My brother looked up from the table with the most devilish grin on his face, as well as complete shock in his eyes because my dad didn't get his joke. You see, to my 6 year old brother, rape was G-rape without the "g". To this day I will never forget the look of bewilderment on my dad's face as we all started howling!!!

Mpls

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
test

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Djgirl5235

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
See, it worked!!!!

Mpls

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Let's try that again with color



As that Liza chick in My Fair Lady says.., "I think I've got it."

Thanks all for your help.

Mpls

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As I accept this award, I'd like to thank Dj and Square.., Couldn't have done it without you guys.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 01:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl dj. mpls, very good. hope we haven't created a monster.

Bearware

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, one of my favorite memories will probably be lost on you 'youngsters', but here goes.... There was a cartoon on tv that I dearly loved, Quick Draw McGraw. Quick Draw was a horse, with a small mule friend named Baba Lewey. They were 'lawmen. I liked Quick Draw, but it was El Cabong I really loved. El Cabong was Quick Draw with a cheesy mask on. He would swing across the screen from a rope suspended from nothing, and yell, "ELLLLL CCCAAABBBBOONNNNNNGGGGGGG" as he whammed the bad guy in the head with his guitar.

My family had an unfinished upstairs which my older brother and I had turned into a couple of play rooms. Mine was the unfinished bathroom. (I know you can see this coming, but let me continue...)

So, one evening, I was about 6, and it was time for dinner. My mom made my brother (8) go upstairs to get me for dinner. (I heard her, but was pretending not to hear)... My brother climbed the stairs, mumbling to himself. As he got to the landing, I JUMPED out of the room with my cape and mask on, screamed "EL CABONGGGG", and whammed him over the head with my plastic guitar.

I laughed till I was sick over that one. The look on his face was priceless. Of course the plastic guitar shattered, and he wasn't hurt, but BOY did he play it up! He tells that story every Christmas at the family gatherings, and we both laugh like children. (Oh, and yes, I did get in trouble, and to this day, I cannot play the guitar.)

Jed245

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 06:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nice one Bearware.

I've got so many smiles it's hard to pick one. Not to say that my life is that happy.... I'm just easily amused. :o)

My younger brother who was about 3-5 years old at the time. Liked to go outside on friday/sat night when my older brother used to sit in his car with my cousin and listen to the radio and waste time.

Charlie would run out there (so would I) and sit and talk to them all the time. It was an easy way to spend a friday night with nothing to do. My brother and my cousin both had extensive tape collections. One of the tapes they had was a band called Twisted Sister.

Well Charlie LOVED it! So after he learned who sung the songs (Twisted Sister) he would run out on friday evening and knock on the window with is tiny little fist and say "you got twitid tister?"

Everytime I think of how he sounded and how it looked having a little kid asking to listen to a band like twisted sister. Just can't help but smile. :o)

Jed

Squaredsc

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl bearware. thats cute jed.

Djgirl5235

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 09:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great Job mpls - you freaked me out with your My Fair Lady quotation, since my name is LIZA - I thought, "How did he know that I said that?!" before reading the My Fair Lady bit

Bearware, your story had me lol! Thanks!

Christina

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 05:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just had to post this and tell someone about something that really made me smile.
I work in an institution for the developmentally handicapped. Have for 22 years. I love my job. The other day I went for my regular walk around the hospital. While walking I came upon a client that had obviously fallen and scrached her face. She was very scared and wouldnt talk. I am a little familiar with this client.(her usual behavior is loud and obnoxious, probably the reason she was outside) I helped her up, and was very gentle with her. She wasnt responding to me the way I know her. Maybe she had a seizure, perhaps another client accosted her, I cant be sure. Boy she was a frightened lady. I walked her to her ward, took about 10 minutes. Gave her all the motherly comfort I could give her.
Almost home......she stops and looks at me(finally) and says "thank you".
I cried, that was the last thing I ever expected from this lady. It was so normal...it was wonderful. This will make me smile for a long time.

Pamy

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 05:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhhh Christina what a great story. What a rewarding yet very hard job you have.

Mpls

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great story Christina. You have a job I just couldn't do, but is so darn important in this society.

Christina

Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 05:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have told this story to a few co workers as well.
Most looked at me funny because of this particular client. I guess she isnt the most fun to be around and they hardly believe it. I am a regular nite person and get to spend the one on one most times. I get to see a whole other person when I am alone with thses guys.
This has to be the most rewarding experience I have ever had with these clients. There are so many more ugly stories to tell people and they are what you usually hear.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 05:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
my #1 son catching an interception and running it back for a touchdown. going to each of my boys' band concerts, plays, chorus concerts, and science fairs. my #2 son getting a base hit in every game he has played.

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 06:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Squared...Thanks for reminding me of all those little things, I tend to forget them now that they're in college and a financial drain. Hopefully they will remember me being at all those special events and witnessing their victories and find a nice home for me when the time comes.

Midlifer

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When I was in elementary school, walking home on a crisp, autumn day, smelling baked apple when I walked into my house (my mom fixed it for me).

Sigh......

Secretsmile

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This thread is made for me! For any of you who know me or any who have read my profile, you will understand why! LOL!

On my 40th birthday I vowed to write down in my journal one "secret smile" moment each day, and I haven't run out of them yet.

I will share with you all my most recent moment. We have 3 children, two in college, one a senior in high school, so they don't see as much of each other as they used to. Recently we all attended a family wedding and they were each dressed up.

Our middle child is our only daughter, and she wore a tight skirt and high heeled sandals, as we all walked down the outside, rather uneven stone stairs, she was having an awkward time with her balance. At the same time I noticed her boyfriend was unaware of this, both her brothers noticed it also. As though on cue, they both stepped up to either side of her and offered their arms.

I felt awed by the sight of my three children walking together, in love and support of each other.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 07:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
lost, i feel the same way, #1 has already informed me that he's putting me in a home.

mid, yummy.

secret, that's soo sweet. my brother would've let me fall on my face.

Bobbie_552001

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 08:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When my 22 year old daughter calls me "mommy"

When my father told me for the very first time that he loved me...I was 44.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 09:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Secret, that's a wonderful smile. How fortunate for your daughter to have those two brothers, and what a metaphor for what family is all about.

Midlifer

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 09:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Awwww....I am LOVING these stories. Bobbie, my 20 year old and 24 year old daughters still call me "mommy".

Along the "I love you" line, my younger daughter told my older daughter that (along with her new husband) at their wedding reception (younger daughter was maid of honor, another sweet moment).

Seeing my husband dance with my older daughter at her wedding. She always feared that he would die before that because my dad (her grandfather)died before I was married. A VERY special moment for me, and I just watched them the entire time they danced. The photographer took a picture of me watching them, and it's special to me.

Excuse me while I grab a tissue....

Mack

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One of my fondest memories that makes me smile is our wedding day, specifically the first moment they opened the back doors of the church and I saw my bride in her wedding dress. I was transfixed! Later that day we were talking about the ceremony and she mentioned the people standing up for her as she came up the aisle. I said "They did????" I was so focused on her that I had, still have, no memory of that even though I know that's custom at most weddings. Even as I type this I'm looking at a picture of her taken that day and I'm smiling. As an aside, this particular picture has always been my favorite of her and it was on my desk September 11 in the Pentagon. My office was in the section next to the attacked portion of the building and was heavily damaged by smoke and water. I worried for days that I'd lost her picture only to be let into our area a week later to see it standing there totally undamaged. That day I cried.

I love my wife more than words can adequately express. She truly is my gift from God and I thank Him every day for bringing her into my life. Why she married me I don't know....but it makes me smile.

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Mack . . . {{{{{{Mack}}}}}}}.