ChasUFarley

My deepest sympathy to Terry and the girls at this time. She was always "real" and a real spitfire. She was too young and this was too soon.

I like Facebook for both personal and professional reasons. Since my last name isn't what it was when I was in school, it's nice to be able to find classmates (or for them to find me!) via Facebook and without paying a fee like on Classmates.com.

Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...

If I'm gonna get wasted, I don't want to have to teach amateurs how to do it!

Okay, I have to chime in here on the fruity beer from Belgium... it's good stuff... but it's not beer...

No, no - repeat after me, "This is NOT beer.... this is Lambic..."

It is a malted fruit beverage - NOT beer. Just like wine coolers are not wine but a malt bev.

(Yes the label says beer... Chazzy knows.... but that's so Americans will know how to categorize it... as we know wine, beer, and hard stuff...)

By the way - a couple ounces of razberry Lambic mixed with a Young's Chocolate Stout is damn good!

I just want to know where that one sock goes in the dryer?

Just a few of my favorites....

(This last one is Samuel Adam's Triple Bock)

Here's the link to the article on WorldNetDaily:

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85543

Check out the poll and comments - tell me if this doesn't ring any bells for you!

George - I really hope you enjoyed that argument with yourself...

By the way, the words "there has to be some truth to it" comes from the Advanced Class, for cryin' out loud. It doesn't mean that I agree with it - good grief - I can't imagine having the energy you put into your "rebuttal" of my post.

I'm cracking up as I read this because shopping.com has a little ad at the bottom of the page with all sorts of lovely shawls, scarfs, headscarfs, etc.

Maybe LCM just needed something like this:

Considering how much he screamed, a bib, er... I mean, mantle.... (or maybe that's "mental") would have been more fitting....

There's got to be "some truth" to what they do or people wouldn't go back.

My sister had a very eerie reading the one and only time she went: "You have two women: 'K' and 'B' in your life. One has left and one will be back."

She interpreted 'K' as our mother - who's name is Kay. (My mother had my sisters when she was teenager and gave them up for adoption.) My sister hadn't yet connected with our mother at the time of the reading. She met up with her about 6 months or so later...

Her adoptive mother's name was Bea - and she interpreted that as the 'B' in the reading. Bea had just died a month or so before the reading.

What's the chances of that? You could say that the chances of two family names being in the 26-letters of the alphabet are pretty good but what's the chances that those names are phonetically the same as those letters? (Bea = B, Kay = K)

So there's some truth to it; there has to be. Just like with a religion or anything else you're expected to buy into....

Keep in mind we're here now because we once put our belief in something/someone who claimed to have a stranglehold on the Truth.

Really?...and should we also not mention Victor Paul Wierwille on these threads because he is not posting here?

...or John Lynn?...seems to me that the Richesons have started their own splinter group and are fair game.

...Where's my tweezers?

So are you saying Pawtucket should issue a letter to all GSC followers to ask which leader they are going to follow?

I should think not.

I wish I could find it again.... It was by Jim Beam... It was chocolate... It was really, really rich...

Is there anything else that matters in life?

I've become 99% self-employed as of this year and business is booming. I've been working as a vidographer and meeting minute recorder for my town's committees and board, including the school boards. I've also been working on web design and some administrative projects. I've been turning work down as of late simply because it's so busy right now. Things will slow down in the summer months but I prefer it that way so I can focus on the kids more.

So my job security is pretty good - I'm more confident about it this year than I was a year ago.

Shellon said it best:

The whole point of Paw's original request got lost. It's not about editing, it's not about names, it's not about moderation.

Yes, this is a community. A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. How is that bad, unless and until the community members think it's ok to tar and feather another in the town square or burn another at the stake?

And should this be at the expense of Paw? He's paid dearly for this forum. It's not his responsibility to offer this place for people to get help - I'm in shock that someone would tell him to "please find a happy medium" - WTF? Gee... next time you're ready to leave a job or make a major life change, why don't you remind yourself of that... it's oh-so-comforting...

I think the "greater good" is far better served by maximum individual autonomy over his or her written "content." It's hard to imagine how the unraveling of a thread, as you describe it, is more important than that.

How often would such a thing as blanket deletions happen? Count the times it happened at Greasespot. Did Greasespot somehow go on?

A community can self-police, and the best of them do. The individual who abuses the feature would soon be dismissed from the dialogue.

Have you ever moderated a forum?

I have (and do). It's a lot of work because no matter what you do you can't make everyone happy. It's about the second most thankless job I can think of, next to being a parent. Just because someone could come in and do just what that poster did (even once) is reason enough. She was a VERY PROLIFIC poster - it was a complete mess. Yeah, the forum lived but can you imagine the confusion?

Self-police? This group?

(hang on... i'm laughing to hard to finish this post....)

Okay... by hitting the EDIT button I can come back and finish this today... phew.

I'm sorry... what was the problem again?

As some of you go sniping about the editing issue, something that's been a thorn in my side too, may I remind you of a poster we had here once who decided to delete every single stinkin' post she had made over a year or so?

It made for some half-baked threads because suddenly there were several blank posts from her and many conversations was unraveled. As we say in Maine, it was a "real pis- sah!"

Yeah, I get it that you want to tweak what you wrote. I feel your pain.

What about the greater good?

I don't like it - but I "get it".

And you know what? I've asked the mods to help me edit something and they've been dang helpful. If it's bad enough, just ask... no worries.

So about this poll...

Shut 'er down and ride off into the sunset with your lady, Paw....

Perhaps some divorced orphan will start a "social" x-twi site but you got better things to do....

Just promise me you'll keep in touch!

Stu Hamm (bass player) playing the theme from "Charlie Brown"

... from A Concert For George....

My many years in a cult and my refusal to participate in online support groups has made me angry and bitter and bereft of a sense of humor.

You're joking, right?

(I didn't know McCarthy performed that live either - seeing as The Beatles didn't really tour much, I thought it was a neat find!)

Glad you enjoyed it!

I know there's some Firefox fans out there so I wanted to plug the newest version of the browser, version 3.0.

If you haven't tried it already, I highly recommend you do! It's super-fast and I decided I liked it better than Safari within about the first ten minutes of use.

If you've never tried Firefox, it's way better than anything Microsoft offers and you'll have way less problems with pop-ups, spyware, etc.

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Thanks for posting your list. I'm interested in knowing more about the applesauce ornaments you mentioned - can you post more details, please?

I'm always looking for crafts and stuff to do with the kids. We did potato stamping today and it was huge hit. I have a gingerbread house kit I got at a fabric store for $3.99 that we might decorate today.... I think it will be fun but doubt the frosting will make it to the house to stick it together, if you know what I mean...

Saddened by the news of her passing... a loss to many who will mourn for her but hers was a life and legacy to be celebrated (honored) and remembered. I lift my glass and light a candle tonight. Peace, Carol.

We don't think he's ADHD. Mr. Garden teaches and believe me, he knows ADHD!

A couple of years ago, after FDIL's mother moved in, her focus began to change to finding a man. She has become less interested in being a mom and more in keeping him quiet and out of the way. When I would come to pick him up he would usually have a little chair six inches in front of the TV, staring at the screen. She has never wanted to be bothered with correcting his behavior, only complaining about it.

Her mother wanted the lad medicated when he was 3!!!! I about lost it.

He has developed the habit of ignoring adults who are saying what he doesn't want to hear. He has speech problems, which she has never bothered to correct. TWO years ago I dragged her off to have him tested, they sent her the results, she ignored them, stating, Oh, well, they would deal with it in kindergarten and she wouldn't have to take him to appointments, etc. Of course she was happy to take him to a shrink to get him diagnosed with ADHD.

Sorry if I misunderstood your previous comments in Post #25, third paragraph. No offense was intended.