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Well, you've read the notes, thus it is now time for you to post until the cows come home - thus those confounded cows will be coming home very soon.
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And the word of the day is: CRINKUM-CRANKUM!
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
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Scents and perfumes etc = allergies (a Paul Simon reference).
They all need to be subtle enough for me not to notice!
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Welcome six GUESTS. How can we have six GUESTS and, aside from tomovoz and myself, nothing but a bunch of WUSSBURGERS?
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My current favorite perfume is called Very Irresistible by Givenchy. I've worn the same cologne for close to twenty-five years - Jovan Musk Oil.
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Had to check on the word of the day! Should not have gone there. LOL.
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I've not been to Cologne for over 25 years!!
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lovely bear picture, DR TOMovOZ....and you know of course that one of Mr Curtis' co-stars in THE PURPLE MASK was Miss Allison Hayes, playing one of the models in the dress shop owned by Angela Lansbury....Allison came close to losing her head, but was saved in the last moments, by The Purple Mask!
I liked Mr Curtis a lot, too....when HE was younger.
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Hmmmm.....I guess I like Cool Water or Grey Flannel best as fragrances, but I don't wear them a lot. I use the AXE shower gel and that gives me PLENTY of "presence".... My favorite classic that I continue to buy is CANOE.
From women's perfumes, I don't know anything....I just remember that CHER smelled like bug spray...
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Good morning DRs Ben and Jack.
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DR Ben is catching up on yesterday's posts.
We just finished watching "Lady And The Tramp". It has so much charm.
Goodnight Jack and Ben.
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Good morning, all! I shall be E&T tomorrow and Wednesday; I will be looking at Victor Herbert scores in the Music Division of The Library of Congress. This morning I need to stop by the office for my notes on what we need, stop at the bank and post office, and enjoy the rest of the day.
TOD: Cologne; my dear college chum Gary Holt teaches at the Cologne Conservatory in Deutschland.
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Good morning Larry
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TOD
Givenchy for men. Either the Blue or the Red. I used to like the PYE (Math symbol and not spelled out) but the former has a more subtler fragence with my body chemistry.
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Good morning Larry
Good morning, DR MichaelShayne! I must have gone off to another site when you were coming onto this one. I hope your day is a fantastic one!
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Happy Dingus Day, y'all!
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TOD:
The cologne I most often wear is Gray Flannel. It's not my particular favorite scent, but I get complimented a lot when I wear it and you have to give the people what they want so there it is. Otherwise, I like Burberry for men (though I don't know if they make it anymore) and Hugo Boss.
I have a bottle of Hai Karate, but I'm very careful how I use it.
On women, I like Poem and something by Yves Saint Laurent--I think it's called Yvesse but it used to be called something else. Years back I like Obsession until this woman I once worked with practically bathed herself with it every day.
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My favorite cents:
2
7 1/2
99
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On women, I like Poem and something by Yves Saint Laurent--I think it's called Yvesse but it used to be called something else.
something else--that's the name of my new cologne.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! ! VIBES FOR ALL THAT NEEDS 'EM ! ! ! ! ! [/move]
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I awoke at 5:45 a.m. and knew I would not be able to sleep one minute longer.
Another "recurring" dream last night...over and over...in variations but always, ultimately, the same.
Not one iota of crinkum-crankum to challenge my sleeping mind.
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In the days of old when colognes didn't send me into allergy sensitivity HELL, I was very very fond of a couple of the "Nine Flags" fragrances.
A particular favorite was "Aromatic Tabac" from Brazil.
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There is a chance that we may actually begin drying out this week...the sun might come out today instead of tomorrow...and warmer temps are promised (now that I have more fire logs laid in).
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Time to get ready for the work day.
And time waits for no one, least of all me.
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BK, if you want to gall said person at said record label. You could always just go to the show at the Gardenia on your own dime. That would probably annoy said person no end.
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Is this said person a Gaul?
If so, I say GALL the GAUL!
He could, after all, have some Gaul in him...we already know he has some gall.
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Good morning!
We leave summer behind just a bit today with a cooler day, but still very beautiful. It's not supposed to get to 80 today, and I'm hoping that's the case. It was near 90 the last three days.
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I'm at work now.
The roads were fairly bereft of the usual traffic.
It feels like some folks are celebrating a holiday today.
That's okay with me. I can use the road space.
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My local Shell station continues to sell "regular" for under $3/gal. It's $2.99 9/10ths/gal this morning.
That's so much more appealing than an even $3...don't you agree?
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I have two favorite colognes. One is the frequently mentioned Gray Flannel. The other is CK One which is probably my favorite right now.
I was given a bottle of Hawaiian Surf many years ago for Christmas, and I've always thought it smelled so fresh and fun. Alas, there is about a tablespoon full of it left in that bottle after all these years, and I've never seen it again. (Came in a cork covered bottle).
The scents that I can't stand to smell on anyone now: Obsession (which is just so heavy and overpowering) and British Sterling which gags me.
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Gas here is $2.69.9 a gallon. Argh!
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Speaking of "near" things, we are very near the 100th anniversary of "the Great Quake."
Tomorrow at 5:32 a.m., it will have been 100 years since San Francisco was literally decimated by a catastrophic earthquake and then reduced to ashes by ensuing fires.
We've been 'besieged, barraged and beleagured" by daily coverage the past couple of weeks, in print and on TV, of that fateful day and with reminders to be prepared and reminders of how to prepare.
Of course, the one concession all the experts make is that one cannot truly "prepare" to survive an earthquake. One never knows how strong it will be or how much damage it will cause.
One can only be prepared to get by if one "survives" an earthquake.
"I'll get by....as long as I...."
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Page Two Christopher Robin and Friends Dance!!!
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I'm looking forward to watching L&O:CI and THE SOPRANOS from last night. What appeared to be happening with Vito at the end of last week's episode might not have actually happened, so I'll be interested to see how that all works out.
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And there is a new episode of MEDIUM tonight which NBC has been trumpeting for a couple of weeks now. Looking forward to seeing the show again.
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Monday greetings! I was exhausted last night after having 3 senior citizens in for Easter dinner - watched West Wing and went to bed. A doozy of a thunderstorm woke me up about 1am and I had a restless night until it was time to get up to take DS Rob to work. He thought he was just going to take my car for the day, but I explained that just because it's my day off doesn't mean I don't need my car. He's not a happy camper, but will get over it.
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Gas here is $2.69.9 a gallon. Argh!
$2.75 at the station near our house, DR MattH.
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$2.75 at the station near our house, DR MattH.
The price I quoted was Saturday's price. It could very well have jumped a nickel since then.
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I caught up this weekend with some programming that I recorded last week.
"Supernatural" has been an entertaining find on the WB, but last Thursday's episode really surprised me. At one point in the proceedings, I broke out in chills at a revelation...totally spooked me out. That hasn't happened in a long, long time...and it was fun!
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Got to jump in the shower and get ready to meet best friend John for lunch.
WBBL.
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I caught up this weekend with some programming that I recorded last week.
"Supernatural" has been an entertaining find on the WB, but last Thursday's episode really surprised me. At one point in the proceedings, I broke out in chills at a revelation...totally spooked me out. That hasn't happened in a long, long time...and it was fun!
I'm glad you liked it as much as I did. Yes, it led me down the wrong path and I followed eagerly. The surprise was great!
I see they're involving the guys more with women now. With the show's big female fan base, that's not surprising.
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Good morning. I'm waiting for my Brother and Sisteri-in -law who are arriving at 10:00AM.....but it's nearly 11:00 AM, you say.....yes, and they are about 30 minutes away. LOL. I told Paul at breakfast that 10:00 meant 11:30, I was pretty close. I used to get upset that they were always late, but they arwe ALWAYS late, so you just tell them a time about 1 1/2 hours before you want them there
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My family has been pretty cool lately. Although I didn't win the trial, the judge sent an email to my boss saying my cross examination of the print expert was the best he had ever heard and that it should be saved and used as a resource for people needed to do a cross of a print expert.
The email was forwarded to me and I passed it on. They've said some pretty nice things about it. My sister in law sent a really nice email that I just read. It was very sweet and very unlike her. Today may not be so bad after all
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Well, I suppose I should mosey downstairs and measure my deck. We are going to look for a table and chairs for it today and I want to have the measurements when we go.
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I am very excited to see James Taylor tonight. We have fabulous loge seats (my brother calls them Lincoln seats) They aren't the greatest for a play, but tonight it's just James Taylor acoustic with no band. They will be perfect for that
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Perfume- My current favorite is "Intuition" think I'll go put some on
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Regarding favorite sense, I try to keep a sense of humor about things, but I'm suspecting some malfea-sense on the part of the folk(s) who do our Saturday mail delivery, that is, that instead of attempting delivery, I suspect that they just mark down that they've attempted delivery and then send our parcels to the post office (which might not seem like that big an inconvenience, but frankly is). First, there was a package which they had on the system with dleivery attempted on April 1, and we thought one of us was home at the time they attempted delivery but couldn't 100% remember. But now there's another package where the records showed they attempted delivery at 8:52 this past Saturday, and we know without a doubt that we were home and would have heard the door because Skip was meeting someone downstairs for a dog walk a few minutes past 9 a.m. and hadn't left yet. And we've never had problems with getting our packages during the regular Mon-Fri week, only when the records indicated delivery attempt on a Saturday.
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I'm also excited about the concert because it was a sell out in record time, approximately 20 minutes or so. The scalpers are selling tickets at over 5 times face value. Amazing. Anyway, it tells me the people there will most likely be responsive and want to see him as much as we do. Should be a good crowd
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Well off to spray on some cologne and get on with my day
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Of course, I've got to deal with the post office non-sense with some sense of proportion. I'm also worried that anyone who would just choose to mark down that delivery was attempted without actually attempting delivery might also choose to reatilate if we got him or her in trouble by doing something to our other mail.
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Michael York is coming to Indy in CAMELOT in February....I think we may have to get tickets for this. It is Molly's favorite show....and it IS Michael York....from LOGAN'S RUN and CABARET and FRANKENSTEIN THE TRUE STORY (I think he was in that!).
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I have not favorite colgnes or perfumes.
DR JRand55, keep a look out for a package coming your way...with any luck (and if you don't have the same postman as FJL) then it should arrive today!
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I just paid $2.879 for gasoline.
And I had a BK moment. I went to the bank and then came home and got my MasterCard statement in the mail (so many AMAZON and PayPal purchases!) and was going to write the check for the payment....but I was looking for another check for the deposit...and looking and looking and looking.....when I realized I had just come from the bank, where I had cashed said check.
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Indiana is Number one.
We are NUMBER ONE!!!
Indiana is NUMBER ONE!!!! No other state in the union can catch us....we are number ONE!!!!
Number one in the nation in the number of students rejected for financial aid because they are drug users!
Go, Indiana!
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I don't wear scents, so I don't really have a favorite. I've gotten a couple of bottles of Old Spice that I do like, and some Pierre Cardin cologne that's not bad. But I don't wear them because at work, we have a scent-free policy. The woman who works right across from me is very sensitive (scent-sitive) and I've even had to get new deoderant because she can't handle it. I do know, however, that I don't like English Leather. :P My dad had some and a guy that I work with used to wear it and I think it's...not very applealing at all.
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I am watching a most entertaining infomercial about Easy Crown Molding. I have never seen anyone so excited about crown molding. It's quite amusing.
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And now, I'm off to work...scentless. :)
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See the difference Easy Crown Molding makes? Apply the molding, and your windows have curtains and the bed is made!
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See the difference Easy Crown Molding makes? Apply the molding, and your windows have curtains and the bed is made!
Well, now I'm excited about Easy Crown Molding!
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Wouldn't it be great if you could build an actual house out of Lego? The possibilities for additions and reconfigurations of rooms would be endless.
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Cillaliz - sounds like you're giving Perry Mason a run for his money. Congrats!
TOD - I got out of the habit of wearing perfume when I lived in Boulder. Everyone is very allergy conscious there. And if you went to some public function wearing even a touch of cologne, people would look at you as if you'd walked in smoking a big fat Cuban cigar.
My favorite scent before my Boulder years was Nina Ricci's L'air du Temps. And the bottles were so pretty, too. I still have some and wear it once in a while. These days I prefer to wear scented body creams - the latest is a papaya scent which is lovely and fresh.
BUT - the TOD is a good one for me, as I've been looking around for a new perfume - have been "auditioning" scents. Haven't settled on one yet. Don't like overly sweet floral scents. You can only try a couple at a time, so it's a long process to find "the One"...
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I'm up, I'm up, after a fitful night of sleep. When I went to bed my allergies were really bothering me, and I discovered that my throat suddenly felt really scratchy. I don't sleep well when that's the case, and this morning my throat is fairly sore - so, maybe I've come down with something, or maybe it's just the allergies but it feels like the former rather than the latter even though I'd rather it felt like the latter than the former.
Pogue: My pal Jim Brewer suggested I just show up at the Gardenia, but the one thing I didn't want to do was make it in any way uncomfortable for the singer.
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Michael York is coming to Indy in CAMELOT in February....I think we may have to get tickets for this. It is Molly's favorite show....and it IS Michael York....from LOGAN'S RUN and CABARET and FRANKENSTEIN THE TRUE STORY (I think he was in that!).
Also in "Taming of the Shrew", "The Guru", "Justine" and "Murder on the Orient Express."
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So sad, to be all alone on this forum....
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Speaking of Nine Flags....
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Such a wonderful word of the day and yet, no one can have any fun with it. Oh, well.
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More fun with 9 Flags...
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I awoke at 5:45 a.m. and knew I would not be able to sleep one minute longer.
Another "recurring" dream last night...over and over...in variations but always, ultimately, the same.
Not one iota of crinkum-crankum to challenge my sleeping mind.
Chopped liver...that's what I am.
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Speaking of words of the day, remember when the word of the day was "Spore" and it seemed to be in honor of Heather Spore, the wonderfully memorable Taura/Miss July (the guys in my office still talk about her) in LAST STARFIGHTER? Heather has been in WICKED on Broadway for a while, and I just saw that she mentions LAST STARFIGHTER as the second item in her bio, right after THE FANTASTICKS. I know that LAST STARFIGHTER has been mentioned in bios ranging far and wide from off-Bway to Paper Mill to Two River to Trump Plaza Theater Atlantic City, but it's the first time LAST STARFIGHTER has been mentioned in an actual Broadway bio. Skip's used to it with his past shows, but we were both pleased to see the "placement" we got from Heather.
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And Romeo and Juliet.
I do not know what the WOD means, I am frazzled.
Congrats to DR CILLA LIZ on her judiciary acumen.
Wow...what about a Lego house WITH Crown Molding?
What about Crown Molding for your Car? Your doghouse? Your yard?
Think of the possibilities.
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I know what you mean, DR FJL....oftentimes I am mentioned in the bios on Broadway....but it's just as "friends" or "everyone I have worked with" or even "others...."
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Crinkum!
Crankum!
Stink 'em!
Spank 'em!
Go, team, go!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
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There's that famous accounting firm Dewey Crankum and Howe.
Or maybe the law firm Milkum Bilkum and Takem could be renamed Milkum Crinkum and Takem.
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Agatha Christie gave pretty good crinkum-crankum!
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"Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Westphalia, in the castle of the Baron Crinkum-Crankum-Crunk, there lived four young people..."
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Goddam post office! I needed to mail a priority package today with confirmation and the entire post office is filled with the twits who waited until today to mail their tax returns: the line for a clerk is out the door, the line at the automated teller looked like a 30-minute wait. Why the hell don't the postal authorities assign at least one window for non-IRS business? So now I have to wait until Thursday to mail this sucker.
Color me pissed. Again!
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Goddam post office! I needed to mail a priority package today with confirmation and the entire post office is filled with the twits who waited until today to mail their tax returns: the line for a clerk is out the door, the line at the automated teller looked like a 30-minute wait. Why the hell don't the postal authorities assign at least one window for non-IRS business? So now I have to wait until Thursday to mail this sucker.
Color me pissed. Again!
Must be like the day I had to mail a package to an EBAY buyer - and I chose the day the postal rates changed... :P
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DR MARIA - don't try CHER or WHITE DIAMONDS.
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MBarnum, lucky Bosco having so many cousins and welcomed in their homes. Will you be posting photos?
Tomovoz, bears and parrots, you do post such happy pics.
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Come on, HHW'ers..don't we have any BRUT fans around?
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I have liked a few brut(e)s.
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Although I didn't win the trial, the judge sent an email to my boss saying my cross examination of the print expert was the best he had ever heard and that it should be saved and used as a resource for people needed to do a cross of a print expert.
WOW! That is great! You knew you were good, but to have the judge confirm it in writing....CONGRATULATIONS!
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Come on, HHW'ers..don't we have any BRUT fans around?
As in "Et Tu, Ya BRUT?"
And while I'm bitching, what the hell is with the Doublemint ads running on tv now with a chorus line of some of the ugliest trolls I've ever seen on television. They should all have bridges built over them.
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See the difference Easy Crown Molding makes? Apply the molding, and your windows have curtains and the bed is made!
;D
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Promise her anything, but give her Arpege.
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Or a big ol' bottle of Jean Nate
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JRand I will want details on Michael York.
Elmore I would have thought the NY post office would have one of those new automated mailing machines.
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There's a fragrance
That's here to stay
And they call it
Charlie!
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JRand I will want details on Michael York.
Elmore I would have thought the NY post office would have one of those new automated mailing machines.
They did! One. With a long line waiting for it.
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Oh, Elixir of Egypt, make up my mind for me! I'm waiting for the answer!
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Elmore I re-read your original post. You are so kind not to have said you already mentioned the automated teller. :)
Personally I think it is safer you didn't mail the package today.
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That Elixer is purty powerful....but I never cared much for the choreography it makes you dream.....
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That Elixer is purty powerful....but I never cared much for the choreography it makes you dream.....
:D :D :D :D :D :D!
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Elmore I re-read your original post. You are so kind not to have said you already mentioned the automated teller. :)
Personally I think it is safer you didn't mail the package today.
Nursie, I'm often too busy publicly humiliating myself to do it to another!
Oh, wait! I publicly humiliate DR MBarnum all the time. Never mind.
Why is it safer to wait till Thursday?
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LOL
Just with all the mail going out right now, I imagine it couldn't hurt to send the package later in the week.
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COLOR ME PISSED - isn't that the sequel to "Yellow River"
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See the difference Easy Crown Molding makes? Apply the molding, and your windows have curtains and the bed is made!
That is SOOO Exciting ;)
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Thanks Drs Maria and Jane. I must admit I'm still smiling about that one
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I'm also smiling because the lump I saw on Callie's lip is normal!!!!! Yee and HA! The vet said he wouldn't charge me for normal, but that next time Callie goes in she should take him a Blizzard from Dairy Queen. He is one of 3 vets that worked very hard a year and a half ago saving Callie's life, so he's happy that I take her in for every little concern.
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All this talk about banks and ATMs reminds me I have no cash and I haven't put new checks in my checkbook. Better run to the ATM before we go to dinner tonight. The vet appointment made things perfect today. I had to leave after lunch so they are shopping away and I am not.
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Back from lunch. A passable, but wouldn't-do-it-again, sweet 'n' sour chicken with rice and steamed veggies. There was a sweet sauce poured over a grilled chicken breast...I never figured out what the sour was.
Still, it filled me up.
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This day has been relatively quiet, all things considered.
I don't want to let my guard down lest some fershluganah crinkum-crankum problem arises to ruin it all.
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I like the smell of Brut. I think it's a very clean smell.
Back when James Bond was very, very big (mid 1960s), there was a 007 cologne that my brother had, and I quite liked the scent of it.
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I used to like Chanel for Men.
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Got the shows I recorded last night watched. First up was a disturbing episode of LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT having to do with a method actor. Very creepy, queasy episode.
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THE SOPRANOS
spoiler (since bk is often a week behind in his viewing)
dealt with the fallout of Vito being discovered as a gay Mafioso. Part of it was indeed comic, these men who kiss and hug each other as a sign of respect, saying how unnatural it is for men to kiss. I like that Tony is trying to be the voice of reason. Interesting episode.
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I have a friend whose body chemistry mixed with Brut smelled like Ajax.
I told him this in college the first time he wore it, and he got furious with me.
When he met his girl friend, she asked him whether he'd been cleaning sinks and toilets 'cause he smelled like Ajax cleanser (I wasn't there...but heard it from another person who was). I was mighty tickled. He was mighty pissed.
And he continued wearing it to spite everyone who thought it stankl.
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COntinued with HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCEROR'S STONE, but didn't get a lot more watched since we had a storm advisory, and I thought it would be expedient to shut down electronics. I read for awhile until the storm passed.
We had high winds but just a touch of rain, and now except for the wet pavement, you'd never know there had been any disturbance. It's gorgeous outside.
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Can we just put CRINKUM CRANKUM into the Archies' hit song "Jingle Jangle"
Sing me, sing me, sing me
Sing me, sing me baby
Oooooooh!
Uh!
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, sing me yeah
La da da lada da
Sing the Crinkum Crankum song
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, baby yeah
La da da lada da
Ever since I metcha, I couldn't wantcha better
I couldn't love you stronger if I tried
It's my true heart I'm showin' or my nose would be growin'
You know that it gets longer when I lie
Singin'...
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, sing me yeah
La da da lada da
Sing the Crinkum Crankum song
La da da lada da
Oo! sing me, baby yeah
La da da lada da
Bein' kinda pretty and down here in the city
You'll find it isn't easy to be smart
When tryin' to untangle the crinkum from the crankum
It's easy if you listen with your heart
Singin'
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, sing me yeah
La da da lada da
Sing the Crinkum Crankum song
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, baby yeah
La da da lada da
You'll make the winter springtime and crinkum crankum sing time
Right on through the summer and the fall
So darlin' don't be weepin' and please don't you be sleepin'
When I come a creepin' down the hall
Singin'
La da da lada da
Sing me, sing me, sing me yeah
La da da lada da
male: Oh come on
baritone: Oh come on
female: Baby get it together
male: Oh ho come on
baritone: Oh come one
female: Ooh, yeah yeah yeah, yeah
male: Woah c'mon!
baritone: Oh come on
female: Baby get it together
male Woah, come on
baritone: Oh come on
all together: C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
Come on
La da da lada da
Sing the Crinkum Crankum song
La da da lada da
Oo!, sing me, baby yeah
La da da lada da
Sing the Crinkum Crankum song
La da da lada da
Oo!, sing me, baby yeah
La da da lada da
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Except for that rhyme with "untangle," that song works pretty well. :)
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If you can't crinkum, crankum!
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COLOR ME PISSED - isn't that the sequel to "Yellow River"
Yes...by I. P. Freelie ;)
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Do you realize that if you replace every curse word you might feel like saying with the words "crinkum crankum", you'll still make sense, plus you'll be adding some depth to your frustrations?
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Yes...by I. P. Freelie ;)
Wasn't there some editing help by C. U. Dribble?
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Wasn't there some editing help by C. U. Dribble?
Freelie and Dribble were classmates, I believe, at Clearwater U., from which they micturated in 2002.
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Heading down a bit earlier today because I want to rearrange a video shelf to clear out some laserdiscs that have been duplicated on DVD and thus have more space for DVD storage. This will be a major undertaking.
WBBL.
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Warning - RANT coming up:
What is it with the world we live in? What is it with stupid, weak, ignorant sons-of-bitches who have to make things difficult for others by their selfish inane behavior? What has already happened in Oregon has now happened here - they no longer sell Actifed on the shelves - you have to now go to the drug department and buy from them, and if, heaven forbid, you run out after that department is closed, you're out of luck. Supermarkets no longer sell Actifed. And why? Because there's some ingredient that stupid peckerheads can use in combination with other ingredients to make some drug or for a free-base concoction or something like that. I don't really care if these rectal cretins kill themselves with their crap, but when it impacts others' ability to buy something they actually need for the purpose that the medicine is intended, then I get angry - really angry. I can only wish each and every one of these sickening mofos (MOFOS, in Internet lingo) a slow, lingering demise into oblivion - well, make that a fast demise into oblivion.
Part two of the rant has to do with Highland, a street in Hollywood, that has always been one of the worst traffic-laden streets in LA. When they built that grotesque monstrosity known as Hollywood+Highland, the developers assured everyone that the traffic on Highland would not get worse, that the design, in fact, would help the flow of the traffic. Well, big surprise - they lied. From the time I got off the freeway at Highland it took me fifteen minutes to get to the entrance to the Renaissance Hotel. Normally, that would be a one minute ride. And no one cares. On top of that annoyance, I turned to go into the parking structure, and there was a huge truck blocking BOTH lanes to go in. Five cars had to sit there and wait until the yokel finally realized what he'd done and pulled his truck over to the right so that we could all BARELY make it down the second lane. As I passed him I gave him a piece of my mind. For what I have no idea, since he looked like an ignoramus who wouldn't have understood one word of the English that was being spoken to him.
End of rant.
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That was two rants for the price of one!
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When your cologne plus body odor smells like Ajax, you spite nobody but yourself.
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I grew up in Crown Point, Indiana. Known also as Crown Molding, Indiana.
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Excellent Callie news, Cillaliz!
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Back again after making deviled eggs, having lunch with DH Richard, taking a nap, and watching No Way to Treat a Lady, which was recommended here a while ago.
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That Elixer is purty powerful....but I never cared much for the choreography it makes you dream.....
DR JRand - DR Elmore and I recommend that you need to see the "Bride of Zorro" interpretation that was included in a local production many, many years ago ;)
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***Healing throat vibes to bk***
JR - Thanks for the warning, but I'd never try any perfume "made" by a movie star. Unless it was Eau de Monty Clift.
I'm not liking the Vito subplot on The Sopranos. I think the idea was great, but the execution of the idea is silly. I'll say no more lest I spoil something for those who may not have seen it.
Any HOUSE fans out there? I'm trying to decide whether to go to "An Evening of House" at the TV Academy tonight. The whole cast and creative team will be there, with Elvis Mitchell as moderator. I'm not as into House as I was last season, so I don't know...
On the other hand, there's a dessert reception afterwards, hosted by Dove chocolates, so I could score some yummy treats.
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DR Maria - Fan of the show or not, I'd go just for the chocolate!
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TOD -
Favorite scents - Chanel No. 5, White Linen, Sunflowers. I like to use scented lotions.
Favorite cents - the 92/hour that will appear in my paycheck, effective yesterday.
Favorite sense - common, which many people seem to have in short supply.
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I think Dove Chocolate is still available in OZ. It's not a favourite. We also have a dove "soap". I don't think that helped the marketing. Whitman's could not make an impact on the market either. Herchey (Sp?) would have no hope at all. Worst Chocolate in the world for Australian tastes.
I'd still go for the chocolate anyway!!! (Unless there is an ice-cream alternative).
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Any HOUSE fans out there? I'm trying to decide whether to go to "An Evening of House" at the TV Academy tonight. The whole cast and creative team will be there, with Elvis Mitchell as moderator. I'm not as into House as I was last season, so I don't know...
Actually, I think this season is even better than the first...but maybe that's just me.
GO...a little networking won't hurt you any....and the chocolate should be worth it.
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Of course, don't stay too late and miss "Medium" at 10 p.m.
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I had a time-intensive scanning project to tie up my computer this afternoon, so I went out for a 20-minute power walk by the lake.
Really nice day today! Most invigorating.
And I really must do it more frequently.
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Sorry Aussie's don't like the Hershey candies, Tommy!
Too sweet, I suspect...and too little chocolate content, too.
Most Americans aren't connnoisseurs of chocolate...mostly because they've not been exposed to very much really intense chocolate. Milk chocolate mixtures have long ruled the American tastebuds.
It's no different from wine, actually...Hershey's is to chocolate what Mateus or Mogan David is to wine, although a lot of Americans are exploring wines with more care and discernment now than was true 20 years ago.
I admit I have weaknesses for the candy bars....like Mounds, Almond Joys, Snickers, 5th Avenues and Zero Bars.
But...I do like a nice bittersweet chunk of 75% or higher chocolate every now and again, too.
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Whitman's could not make an impact on the market either. Herchey (Sp?) would have no hope at all. Worst Chocolate in the world for Australian tastes.
I've been giving my mom 15-19 pounds of See's Chocolates each year at Christmas. She freezes the individual boxes and takes them out at various times of the year.
Since I started doing this, she has no taste at all for Whitman's, which use to suit her just fine.
But See's is much tastier, even after being frozen a few months.
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Thought I would post quick. I am very glad it is a quiet night tonight... I have alot on my plate this week and truly am beginning to wonder.
I will pop in a bit later as I get some things done. Since I have to be present for a meeting here at work on friday, I am taking Wednesday off. That Means I have three days of work to squish in two plus a paper to fine tune... :-)
Thanks for the smiles today you guys.. You are gems! Ron, you crack up!
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Sorry Aussie's don't like the Hershey candies, Tommy!
Too sweet, I suspect...and too little chocolate content, too.
Most Americans aren't connnoisseurs of chocolate...mostly because they've not been exposed to very much really intense chocolate. Milk chocolate mixtures have long ruled the American tastebuds.
It's no different from wine, actually...Hershey's is to chocolate what Mateus or Mogan David is to wine, although a lot of Americans are exploring wines with more care and discernment now than was true 20 years ago.
I admit I have weaknesses for the candy bars....like Mounds, Almond Joys, Snickers, 5th Avenues and Zero Bars.
But...I do like a nice bittersweet chunk of 75% or higher chocolate every now and again, too.
Ron, I love dark chocolate....
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Hmmm... My favorite scents...
I love the smell of fresh lilacs in spring....
Favorite perfume is Lady Stetson or Jordache. I used to like one called Charlie....
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I think Dove Chocolate is still available in OZ. It's not a favourite. We also have a dove "soap". I don't think that helped the marketing. Whitman's could not make an impact on the market either. Herchey (Sp?) would have no hope at all. Worst Chocolate in the world for Australian tastes.
I'd still go for the chocolate anyway!!! (Unless there is an ice-cream alternative).
Hershey is more milk
Dove makes a wonderful Dark chocolate
Ghirardhelli is good. Lindt chocolates are okay.
I love the stuff from Germany made by Rittersport... Great chocolate
I also like one from Ireland that really good...
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Sorry Aussie's don't like the Hershey candies, Tommy!
Too sweet, I suspect...and too little chocolate content, too.
Most Americans aren't connnoisseurs of chocolate...mostly because they've not been exposed to very much really intense chocolate. Milk chocolate mixtures have long ruled the American tastebuds.
It's no different from wine, actually...Hershey's is to chocolate what Mateus or Mogan David is to wine, although a lot of Americans are exploring wines with more care and discernment now than was true 20 years ago.
I admit I have weaknesses for the candy bars....like Mounds, Almond Joys, Snickers, 5th Avenues and Zero Bars.
But...I do like a nice bittersweet chunk of 75% or higher chocolate every now and again, too.
Ron, I am always game for good wine especially a nice chardonnay, merlot or reisling.
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Dove is a many splendored thing
Sugar-free Dove is a many-Splenda'd thing
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I'm quite zoned right now. I did write four pages today (almost to page forty), but my eyes are heavy, my throat, which feels a bit better, is still bugging me, and I have a bad headache.
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Won't forget, can't regret
What I did for Dove...
Dove is never gone
As we travel on
Dove's what we'll remember
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DR JRand - DR Elmore and I recommend that you need to see the "Bride of Zorro" interpretation that was included in a local production many, many years ago ;)
Oh, God! My eyes! My eyes! Whatever happened to Pat Frost?
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BK - You're not sick, you just need Dove.
Sorry. :)
Healing vibes to BK.
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***More healing vibes to bk***
Having read the various opinions, it seems the consensus is that I should go tonight for the chocolates. Dove held the reception for the Liza with a Z evening a few weeks back. As I recall, they had excellent chocolate chip cookies, but no chocolate. There was a huge chocolate cake, however (which I didn't taste).
I'll probably go. Unless I get into a writing frenzy.
As for House - It's not that it's worse than last season. I think I'm just a little tired of it. And it's making me totally paranoid about all the HORRIBLE things that can happen to you when you're ill. If you watch House every week, you will come away with the feeling that a hangnail will most certainly lead to your insides falling out (after several gory seizures). ...But I do llike Hugh Laurie. And it would be fun to hear him speak with his real accent. ...And CHOCOLATE...
Whoever mentioned Medium (Ron?) - a friend of mine has co-written a book about Allison DuBois: "The Truth About Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and Other Remarkable Psychics" ...Quite the title. (I just got it from Amazon.)
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Cillaliz, nice vet and great news regarding Callie. :D
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Maria I’m not a Dove fan, I would go for HOUSE-that I'm a big fan of.
Ron, Whitman’s-yuck, of course your mother can’t eat that after having See’s.
Tomovoz I don’t like Hershey’s either.
DakotaCelt I think Lindt makes the best milk chocolate in the world. I can pass on the rest.
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Bruce I need to respond to part 1 of your rant with a mini rant of my own. ;D
I prefer to reduce the ability for these people to make meth. You can still get your Actifed, you will just have to be careful not to run out of it. You may not care if the users kill themselves, but what if they kill an innocent person, or what about their children? IMHO anything we can do to make it difficult for these people is a good idea.
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Bruce I need to respond to part 1 of your rant with a mini rant of my own. ;D
I prefer to reduce the ability for these people to make meth. You can still get your Actifed, you will just have to be careful not to run out of it. You may not care if the users kill themselves, but what if they kill an innocent person, or what about their children? IMHO anything we can do to make it difficult for these people is a good idea.
I hear you Jane, it is really bad here in parts of ND. Due to the rural nature of the state, meth makers set up shop on rural farmsteads and make the evil they want to wrought upon us. It destroys people.
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I am watching a most entertaining infomercial about Easy Crown Molding. I have never seen anyone so excited about crown molding. It's quite amusing.
the other one i find entertaining is the one for space bags!!
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See the difference Easy Crown Molding makes? Apply the molding, and your windows have curtains and the bed is made!
I think we should all rush out and get some!!
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WOW! That is great! You knew you were good, but to have the judge confirm it in writing....CONGRATULATIONS!
I second Jane...
Great Job Cilla!!
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Cilla, great news about Callie!
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page 6 dance!
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Jane, my point is that these creeps ought to be wiped off the face of the earth. I'm sick to death of having these jerks change the way our lives work. I know it's a small thing, but it's ridiculous. Obviously, I wouldn't want them harming anyone, but I just wish they'd perish. Sorry, I feel strongly about this stuff, and I'm weary of the way these losers ultimately run our lives.
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Well, I'm off to Applebee's for my niece's 22nd birthday! I bought her three CD singles from England (she specifically chose them). I thought about getting some kind of wrapping paper for them so that she can open them, but decided that since she already knows what they are, I'll just give them to her. She won't mind. :)
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DR George - how are you feeling today?
I've been meaning to talk about the touring company of Wicked, which we saw last month in Cincinnati. Julia Murney was out at the matinee we attended and I was a little disappointed until her understudy, Maria Eberline, sang "The Wizard and I." She held her own quite well.
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Just a quick note before I retire to say that a day off work and lots of sleep works wonders.
More anon.
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Jane, my point is that these creeps ought to be wiped off the face of the earth. I'm sick to death of having these jerks change the way our lives work. I know it's a small thing, but it's ridiculous. Obviously, I wouldn't want them harming anyone, but I just wish they'd perish. Sorry, I feel strongly about this stuff, and I'm weary of the way these losers ultimately run our lives.
Bk, i hear what you are saying. I worked in a museum where we would use bleach and similar chemicals for cleaning. When I left in 2000, we already needed special permits to get the larger containers of bleach.
They have started to crack down on landlords who own the buildings, etc that are used by the meth producers. It is a really tragic situation. ND has very few murders (less than 20) in a year and in the last afew months we have already 6 statewide. The population of the state that is a lot. They are also bent on destroying families and values we all hold dear.
You are right, these people need to be removed and the key thrown away for they are the destructive ones of our society.
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Bruce! Can't wait for the reading tomorrow morning of ACT II! Oh, boy!
Cilla - great kitty news, and congrats on the judge actually noticing your work...
TOD - I still like to smell Old Spice on a man. And I am quite enamoured of Drakkar Noir - my nephew Jesse used to wear it, and I always loved it. I have given it as a gift to a couple of special men.
For me, I love Chanel , but don't remember the number!! Plus, I ran out of the bottle I was hoarding last year, and just don't remember!!! And Bloomingdale's used to sell Tea Rose - which I thought was pretty swell. I still have some of that left after 25 years or so. I use it very sparingly, it's such a strong scent. But it always takes me back to Puerta Vallarta, where I first wore it, when my two girl friends and I escaped snowy Noo Yawk one freezing winter for a whole week!
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Penny I’m with you on the Old Spice, very sexy stuff.
Bruce, I wish removing Actifed from the stores solved the problem, not just put a dent in it. Since one is as likely as the other, I prefer a cure for the drug problem instead of wiping these people off the face of the earth.
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Years ago a lady with whom I worked wore Tea Rose.
I did like the perfume and bought some for my mother.
It suited her NOT. I guess that was when I learned about perfumes and personal chemistry.
I love the scent of Roses - but in the garden!!
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I just booked my appointment at the NIH for October 2nd & 3rd. I’m so early I was afraid they would tell me to call back in a few months.
DakotaCelt since I think everyone else knows about my early visits to the NIH I’ll PM you and spare them the details.
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Old Spice! Ughhhhh! Reminds of "Soap on a Rope" and other "wonderful" presents for males in the 1960's.
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I just booked my appointment at the NIH for October 2nd & 3rd. I’m so early I was afraid they would tell me to call back in a few months.
So, Jane, when does this put you in New York?
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I think the afternoon, or early evening, of the 3rd.
I have your information on the other computer. If I remember correctly you are arriving on Monday and will stay through the weekend. Your conference days are the 5th & 6th?
Now I need to plan time with family and friends.
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I think the afternoon, or early evening, of the 3rd.
I have your information on the other computer. If I remember correctly you are arriving on Monday and will stay through the weekend. Your conference days are the 5th & 6th?
Now I need to plan time with family and friends.
My conference days are the 6th and 7th (Friday and Saturday) and, you're right, I'm planning to arrive Monday and stay 'til Sunday. DH Richard might be along on this trip.
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It will be a pleasure to meet DH Richard. I'm sure elmore will also be delighted.
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Howdy Folks!
I forgot to wish Lon McAllister a Happy Birthday yesterday. Just because he's not here anymore doesn't mean we should forget his birthday.
Happy Birthday yesterday to Buffie too.
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Hi Kerry :) We didn't forget about you, nice to have you back.
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Penny I’m with you on the Old Spice, very sexy stuff.
Bruce, I wish removing Actifed from the stores solved the problem, not just put a dent in it. Since one is as likely as the other, I prefer a cure for the drug problem instead of wiping these people off the face of the earth.
Jane, DF wears Old spice.... SIGH!!!!!!!!!! darn, darn, darn..... I am a very well behaved young lady around him....
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;D
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Well, tomorrow is my first day in my "new" job and I have a killer week ahead. 'night!
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I just booked my appointment at the NIH for October 2nd & 3rd. I’m so early I was afraid they would tell me to call back in a few months.
DakotaCelt since I think everyone else knows about my early visits to the NIH I’ll PM you and spare them the details.
Ahh, I hope you all have ablast...
Jane,I will respond to your PM in a moment
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LOL-I'm laughing at my response to Kerry's post, I might have phrased that a bit differently.
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Darn, I missed wishing Ginny a good first day-wishes anyway.
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Well, tomorrow is my first day in my "new" job and I have a killer week ahead. 'night!
Good luck....
Since i have to be here on Friday for some statewide meetings and it is normally my day off, I am taking Wednesday off but I hear you on killer week.
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HOnestly Jane, I am very well behaved!! :-)
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Sure you are.
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Did I chase Kerry away?
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BK and DR George hope you both feel better.
I don't wear perfume since i'm allergic. I actually used to not even be able to walk across the front of most department stores. But either my allergies got a bit better, or they have stopped spraying so much perfume in the air!
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Sure you are.
I even polished may halo!!
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I did not get to watch MEDIUM yet, but i'm looking forward to it. Luckily I noticed it went over (it's on here from 9-10pm). It never goes over on CTV. BUt it went till 10 exactly or maybe a minute earlier (usually ends at :55). So i'm taping the end now (NBC).
Did anybody watch that new cooking contest on NBC? They played a lot of MEDIUM commercials during it!
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Did I chase Kerry away?
Nahhhh, you would never do a think like that Jane!!!
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Page 7 dance....
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DR Jennifer, any ideas when CBC will be broadcasting the 2nd season of Dr. Who?
I watched the Dalek episode from season one this past Friday... Too bad the evil machines cannot be used for threatening certain bad writers (Passions, Days) to write better.
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Dakota-LOL
Jennifer they are spraying less & asking before blasting you with that stuff.
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Time to go.
'night
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Had some fun video experiences tonight. Started off finishing the first HARRY POTTER. What amazed me was how accurate the likeness of Voldemort was in this one looking so much like the way Ralph Fiennes ended up looking in the fourth one. A little more nose in this version (CGI, of course), but a very close match. Amazing since Ralph wasn't cast until four years later!
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I think the MEDIUM promos gave way too much away on this episode. It would have been much more mysterious and creepy if we hadn't know about "a evil medium."
That said, I really enjoyed the show, and particularly enjoyed Allison's explanation to her daughters about the lies to the public and the truth to the family.
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After finishing HARRY POTTER, I put in the first disc in the Season 3 MONK boxed set. The first episodes in the set are the last one Bitty Schramm was in playing Monk's assistant Sharonna.
I watched two episodes tonight - the New York-based season premiere (a good mystery) and the panic room episode (which was ridiculous).
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'24' tonight was another agonizingly tense episode with the ebb and flow of the good guys and the bad guys having the upper hand. One exciting moment after another and really unbearably absorbing. I think there are five more episodes to go in the season.
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Guess I'll head down now and get some sleep.
Good night, everyone!
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DRs Jane and Ginny (and anyone else going to New York in Oct) I am planning to go again. I have something I may want to be here for on Oct 3, I need to do some checking....I'll be in touch
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DRs Jane and Ginny (and anyone else going to New York in Oct) I am planning to go again. I have something I may want to be here for on Oct 3, I need to do some checking....I'll be in touch
Greetings Cilla...
I hope you can go to NYC and see the other Hainsies also...
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The James Taylor concert was really fun tonight. We had great seats, had a great time together and James was very entertaining. I guess I didn't realize he was so funny. anyway, he sang all the old favorites and a good time was had by all....well maybe not the couple in front of us who ended up leaving after a couple songs...too much fun before the concert, I believe...but it left us a great view!~
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Hi Dakota, I'd love to stay and chat, but i'm really tired and have had a bit of a sort throat all day. My vacation is now over and I'm back to work bright and early.
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The James Taylor concert was really fun tonight. We had great seats, had a great time together and James was very entertaining. I guess I didn't realize he was so funny. anyway, he sang all the old favorites and a good time was had by all....well maybe not the couple in front of us who ended up leaving after a couple songs...too much fun before the concert, I believe...but it left us a great view!~
I like James Taylor... He is a marvelous singer / songwriter.
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I hope you sore throat goes away.... Sending better throat vibes your way dear...
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Gins! Glad you had a good time at the James Taylor concert! Ah, for the old times...
okay, more on TOD - RE: Cents - well, my name is Penny...
And Sense: of Wonder, surely.
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Sense of hearing, especially early in the morning, as far as birds are concerned.
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And fine sens-amilla
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Divarobbie - Skip sent an email to Laura B. a little while ago through your Laura B. website. (He couldn't find any other email address for her.) Will emails sent there actually ultimately get to Laura?
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Back from the House evening - which was interesting. Some of it quite funny. Good Sherlock Holmes discussion (how the character of Holmes was based on a doctor and Dr. House is based on Holmes - but the creators of the show didn't know that Holmes was based on a doctor until after the fact...).
Alas, the lines for food were long and I didn't feel like waiting. It didn't look all that exciting anyway. Not much in the way of chocolate! Stopped at Gelson's on the way home and got some yummy chicken tenders and salad.
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COLOR ME PISSED - isn't that the sequel to "Yellow River"
I thoguht it was a Streisand special.
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Back from lunch. A passable, but wouldn't-do-it-again, sweet 'n' sour chicken with rice and steamed veggies. There was a sweet sauce poured over a grilled chicken breast...I never figured out what the sour was.
Maybe the chicken was bad?
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***Healing throat vibes to bk***
JR - Thanks for the warning, but I'd never try any perfume "made" by a movie star. Unless it was Eau de Monty Clift.
I bought a bottle of that once, but one side of it was cracked.
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DR George - how are you feeling today?
I've been meaning to talk about the touring company of Wicked, which we saw last month in Cincinnati. Julia Murney was out at the matinee we attended and I was a little disappointed until her understudy, Maria Eberline, sang "The Wizard and I." She held her own quite well.
Feeling better today than yesterday. I got some medicine and it seems to be working.
And today, we bought the tickets for Wicked in Seattle! It's official! We won't get the actual tickets until two or three weeks before the show, but just about everyone's paid. We also got very good seats...34 total and most are in the third, forth and fifth rows in the first mezzanine section, which is right behind the loge, which only has three rows, itself.
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I think the MEDIUM promos gave way too much away on this episode. It would have been much more mysterious and creepy if we hadn't know about "a evil medium."
That said, I really enjoyed the show, and particularly enjoyed Allison's explanation to her daughters about the lies to the public and the truth to the family.
I really liked this episode, and I agree about the promos giving away too much. That seems to happen more and more often. :P
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T.O.D.
I very rarely wear cologne anymore, because so many people are allergic to it. Still, my favorite cologne, for me, is Drakkar Noir. I love the smell of it, and it smells good on me. I stopped buying it when a guy I was dating told me I was the first white guy he had ever known who had worn it. I used to use Grey Flannel, and I still like it.
It must go back to a childhood memory, but to me the real scent of a man is Aqua Velva. Too bad it stinks on me.
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TCB!!
I thought you and George would have used Old Spice!!
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Hmmm, I just read on the internet, that since Dale Earnhart, Jr. became its spokesman; Dakkar Noir has gone from #15 to #1 in sales. I wonder if it is similar to Drakkar? The strange thing about the news item is that is was a press release from the distributor.
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TCB!!
I thought you and George would have used Old Spice!!
I like the scent of Old Spice, but I associate it with my father.
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I like Old Spice and fortunately don't associcate it with my father. ;)
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Well, I'm going to go to sleep now. I bought a store-brand equivalent of NyQuil® and it's for nighttime...meaning I'm very sleepy. (http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/schlafen/sleeping-smiley-015.gif) Good night, all!
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TOD: I use soap.