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What would you say to Gods' answering machine?

by Sirius Dogma in

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thank you for calling god, please leave a message at the beep or press 5 to leave a fax.

<beep>

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"God, please, if it be your will, please make me win the lottery."

BEEEEP

"God, I don't know if you got my other messages, I would really like to win the lottery."

BEEEEP

"God, hello? Are you there? It was about the lottery, well I guess you're busy."

BEEEEP

"God, I really, really, really want to win the lottery. Where are you anyway? Are you picking up these messages?"

BEEEEP

"Oh, hello, I got your answering machine again, well have I told you how much I want to win the lottery lately?"

God picks up the phone, "Hey meet me half way will ya, and buy a ****ing lottery ticket!"

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Paying twice for everything sold

by JH in

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why did we have to pay twice for every book, magazine sold?.

we paid a first time at the hall for our books, magazines.

then in the field service, the money they gave us had to go back to the kingdom hall.

ball.

hmmm, dunno if it was a U.S. thing or just me that got it wrong, I used to pay for the literature, pioneer rate, then put money towards the next lot.

Still made a loss somewhere.

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Use of blood formula as food for calves gets 'mad cow' focus

by Joyzabel in

use of blood formula as food for calves gets 'mad cow' focus

by mark sherman

the associated press

In the UK, although use of blood in animal feed is still legal, the practice is almost non-existant due to retailer and public pressure, most of the blood is exported for use as animal feed in other countries, about 80,000 tonnes was being exported in 2000.

Due to firstly the Salmonella outbreak, then BSE, the UK has some of the most stringent rules on food standards in the World, standards which exceed those of the European Union with which we also have to comply with.

I certainly feel safer eating beef here or in Ireland than anywhere else, esp. France, or even the US for that matter.

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The "Demons" that some of us actually face.....

by simwitness in

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a couple of days ago a new poster started a thread asking for help, that simple post had this to say:.

i'm so scared!

i need help and support.

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I always found talks difficult at such a young age. I now feel it is wrong to put children through that.

I remember feeling good after a talk which went well, even though I got a "work on" and was then brought to tears by my step dad who lectured me all the way home about the counsel I had got. Telling me we should stive to be perfect, and he was saying that "people only ever notice the bad points, not the good ones".

This is one of the things that just makes me sick about my past.

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But I Wont Cry For Yesterday....

by Pleasuredome in

a positive message for those who are feeling down.

after a year of being out of the 'mind prison', things seem to be moving in the right direction for me.

i've met the people and am doing things that will make a real difference in my life.

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after analysing the past 6 years i realised that i hadnt achieved anything. the borg had instilled in me such a short-term focus and expectation of armageddon, so i was unable to plan for anything in the future

I know exactly where you are coming from, although I was a little bit bitter about it at first. But somehow I managed to walk away from my simultaneous divorce and disfellowshipping and do something with my life.

I went to college to get qualified and bought a house and a motorbike. That was nine years ago and you know what? In 11 days time, I make the final payment on my mortgage. For the first time in my life, I will be financially secure and able to splash out on some things I never dreamed of.

I can't tell you how good that makes me feel, I feel like saying "Up Yours Watchtower!" I would have never accomplished any of this with the zero motivation for life that organisation gave me.

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Not a bark from the Martian Rover

by TresHappy in

nasa team loses contact with mars rover

thursday, january 22, 2004 posted: 1:17 pm est (1817 gmt).

the spirit rover reached for martian soil for the first time january 16. story tools

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Well when I was working on Beagle 2, the British Mars lander, and accidently loaded a program onto it called "Robot Wars".

While all the scientists thought Beagle wasn't responding, it was making it's way over to the Gusev crater to do battle with Spirit's Rover.

Something has gone drastically wrong though, and on my web cam link I can see Beagle has mounted Spirit and thrust it's RS232 connector

straight into the back of it. I will continue with further developements as I receive them.

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Another Awake! Caption Thread

by Stephanus in

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here's an awake!

cover that tries to give the impression that the demand for bloodless surgery comes from other than the dubs (strange that they should try to find support for such a "scriptural" doctrine by saying "everybody else is doing it!

here is the "blank":.

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Awake!: Caption Time!

by Stephanus in

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here's a typical awake!

cover showing the sorts of problems we have that won't be solved until 99.999% of the population die at armageddon:.

here's the cover with the text editted out to help you in your captioning quest:.

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"Carry Your Blood Card -

You Never Know When You Might Need It"

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THE WORLD HAS ENDED % Watch Tower 1930

by garybuss in

here's a blast from the past.. *******************************.

the watch tower herald of christ's presence.

sept 1 1930 p. 2. .

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The closing lines of Ferris Beulers Day Off after the credits comes to mind, "you still here? It's OVER. Go home!"

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What is it with British accents?

by Aztec in

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first, i must say they are very attractive.

i just got off of the phone with two british guys and i spent most of the time saying "what?

" they talk so fast!

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Yes totally, gadget's sorted about his sexuality. *thumps all males on the back reassuringly*