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Re: I AM NOT HAILE SELASSIE
« Reply #60 on: September 14, 2023, 05:38:30 AM »

The dream that almost had me shrieking went like this:

I was home for a visit with my folks.  I still had clothes at their place, and I found it necessary one morning to dress for school. (!)  (I was a grown man, so don't look too deeply into the circumstances.)   I tried on several things until I was very happy with a "look".  But time was against me, and I knew if I didn't hurry up I would miss my bus.  For whatever reason...a shower, I suppose...I had undressed and was rushing to find where I had put my clothes.   The shirt was over here, the trousers in another room.  Found socks and shoes.  And then I knew it was too late for the bus.

My mom was still there getting ready for work, but she had just enough time to get herself to her office on time, and I was really worred about asking her for a ride in a different direction.

So, I went into the kitchen where she was getting stuff together, and she looked at me rather oddly.  I told her I didn't feel very well, that my bus had gone and i had no way to get to school.

She made a funny face and said, "If that is true, then why are you sitting over there with your head on my lap?"

She turned her head toward a couch where she was sitting and I was leaning over with my head in her lap looking for all the world as if I had passed out.

I looked at her, horror on my face and hers.  "Am I dying?  Or dead"?

I woke up.  My heart was pounding!!!

Jack, I swear, if that Dream-O-Matic gets consulted, it had better be something POSITIVE.
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« Reply #61 on: September 14, 2023, 05:40:10 AM »

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate these drug-induced dream cycles.

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« Reply #62 on: September 14, 2023, 05:41:06 AM »

Thanks much, DR Ron Pulliam. Perhaps I should consumer a Singapore sling?

Have three.
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« Reply #63 on: September 14, 2023, 05:43:03 AM »

So, how is YOUR morning going, thus far?
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« Reply #64 on: September 14, 2023, 05:43:47 AM »

Have a very happy, snappy, scrappy and sappy birthday, DR springjaw!!
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« Reply #65 on: September 14, 2023, 05:51:58 AM »

I take the blame for that first dream, DR Ron Pulliam.

If I hadn't posted the photo of Johannes Brahms parking in Baltimore, this never would have happened.
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« Reply #66 on: September 14, 2023, 05:55:22 AM »

So, how is YOUR morning going, thus far?

Very well! I sweated on the treadmill, I took a huge load of recycling to the basement, I watched part of a web series called "The Healing Kitchen," I posted here.
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« Reply #67 on: September 14, 2023, 05:59:20 AM »

Today is "Employee Appreciate Day" at work.       ::)
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« Reply #68 on: September 14, 2023, 06:00:10 AM »

This consists of making us all trapse into the office, play games, and do "team building" exercises. Oh, and a free lunch.
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« Reply #69 on: September 14, 2023, 06:00:26 AM »

I opted to take a vacation day, instead.
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« Reply #70 on: September 14, 2023, 06:00:56 AM »

Am I anti-social?
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« Reply #71 on: September 14, 2023, 06:01:22 AM »

Call me what you will, but we're on page three.
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« Reply #72 on: September 14, 2023, 06:01:31 AM »

So there's that.
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« Reply #73 on: September 14, 2023, 06:02:41 AM »

TOD:

I once had a work colleague whose legal name was Surprise Cherry.
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« Reply #74 on: September 14, 2023, 06:09:33 AM »

TOD:

I once had a work colleague whose legal name was Surprise Cherry.

I bet he got a lot of razzing from the other guys!!
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« Reply #75 on: September 14, 2023, 06:14:34 AM »

Am I anti-social?

No.  You are anti-bad birthday vibes.
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« Reply #76 on: September 14, 2023, 06:15:41 AM »

TOD:

I once had a work colleague whose legal name was Surprise Cherry.

I bet he got a lot of razzing from the other guys!!

This was a female colleague.
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« Reply #77 on: September 14, 2023, 06:16:21 AM »

Guess who's raising a glass to ME?         :)
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« Reply #78 on: September 14, 2023, 06:16:58 AM »

 ;)
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I once had a work colleague whose legal name was Surprise Cherry.

I bet he got a lot of razzing from the other guys!!

This was a female colleague.

The female colleague was razzing the poor guy?
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« Reply #79 on: September 14, 2023, 06:18:58 AM »

Some days, I simplly cannot count forward...
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« Reply #80 on: September 14, 2023, 06:19:36 AM »

...or backward.
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« Reply #81 on: September 14, 2023, 06:22:07 AM »

I had every intention of hitting the road this morning and going to LabCorp to have blood drawn for an appointment next week.

Instead, I am waiting for tomorrow.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Tomorrow, in point of fact, is Friday.

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« Reply #82 on: September 14, 2023, 06:24:56 AM »

Speaking of Haile Selassie, did you all know that he was the key figure toward establishing Rastafarianism?
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« Reply #83 on: September 14, 2023, 06:31:10 AM »

There is only one more day until the opening of "A Haunting in Venice", the latest vainglorious Kenneth Branagh film in which he pretends to be Hercule Poirot but completely reinvented to appease Branagh's ego.

I hope it's a decent film.  The last two were deadly dull.  At least this time he used a lesser known Christie (Hallowe'en Party) and reset it in Venice during a festival of some sort.

Since the original story is very, very British, the film adapation will be very, very Branagh and unrelated at all to Christie.

Sorry...but of all people to get hooked on Christie, it should have been someone who respects the printed word.
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« Reply #84 on: September 14, 2023, 06:39:34 AM »

A Very Happy 60th Birthday to DR Singdaw!! :D
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« Reply #85 on: September 14, 2023, 06:42:32 AM »

~~~Vibes For a Modern Major Miracle Before BK's Head Explodes Like John Cassavetes in The Fury or the Guy in Scanners!!~~~
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« Reply #86 on: September 14, 2023, 06:45:27 AM »

A Very Happy 60th Birthday to DR Singdaw!! :D

60! Did you say 60? OMG! I thought he was 50!
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« Reply #87 on: September 14, 2023, 06:56:12 AM »

  After all, tomorrow is another day.


Well, fiddle-dee-dee!
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« Reply #88 on: September 14, 2023, 06:56:34 AM »

Thank you, DR George!    :)
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« Reply #89 on: September 14, 2023, 06:57:16 AM »

Yes, it is true. 60 I turn. I spent 50 in the synagogue, singing Yom Kippur services. I have a lot to atone for.
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