Posts by littlerockguy

i had enough to do rearing 7 kids and having to indulge in life to make the trade-off of time required to keep up with fiction.. now, there has come an author who has stopped me dead in my tracks and changed all that and his name is cormac mccarthy.. he is some kind of genius with quirky style and a bottomless vocabulary and a penchant for storytelling that won't let me escape.. i first heard of mccarthy by reading the literary critic, harold bloom.

littlerockguy

Thanks for the info Terry. I will check him out. I want to see No Country For Old Men and want to read The Road but Im not going to purchase any new books for a while. I ordered a Kindle from Amazon and eager to try it out when it comes in. I hate wanting a book and the bookstores here not having it and having to order it from Amazon and wait for it to come in.

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I don't care how broke you are...

by zeroday in

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you can always enjoy tabasco.... .

tabasco on eggs.

tabasco on potato chip.

littlerockguy

Great on pizza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDa6pAIatUI

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Stella Awards

by littlerockguy in

got this in my email today.

i hope i never get called to be a juror in some cases like this.. these are ridiculous - the real morons appear to be the jury members.. .

it's time once again to review the winners of the annual "stella awards.".

littlerockguy

Got this in my email today. I hope I never get called to be a juror in some cases like this.

These are ridiculous - the real morons appear to be the jury members.

It's time once again to review the winners of the annual "Stella Awards."

The "Stella Awards" are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who
spilled hot coffee on herself and success-fully sued McDonald's (in New
Mexico ). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous and ridiculous, yet successful, lawsuits in the United States . Here are this year's winners:

7th Place : Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by >> a jury after breaking her ankle when she tripped over a
toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the >> store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering that >> the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

6th Place: Nineteen-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 >> and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord . Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. 5th Place: Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not
able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, so Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the home owners' insurance company, claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion, this is SO outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place. 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next-door neighbors' beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owners' fenced yard. The award was less than originally sought, because the jury felt that the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink can and broke hercoccyx (tail bone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies' room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses. 1st Place (drum roll, please): This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand-new, 32-foot-long Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game -- having driven onto the freeway -- she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do that. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed its
manuals on the basis of this law suit, just in case there were any other complete morons left around

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Weirdest music you like

by JK666 in

i always liked captain beefheart and his magic band.

here are a few youtube examples:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrhr5peifu&feature=related.

littlerockguy

I been listening to ABBA since I was about 9 or 10 and still listen to them; I also listen to The Velvet Underground and Nico, love Depeche Mode; I have a weird music collection, if people scanned it they would swear I was schizophrenic.

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How many JWs do you know that have "Failure to Launch" Syndrome

by BBOARD in

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tired of the hypocrisy's post got me thinking ... how many jw "kids" over the age when they should have left home still live with their parents.

i say this because i have many of those in my congregation.

fyi it looks real bad to be a older man (ie 25 and up) scrub laying up at home unless you have a outstanding circumstance i.e.

littlerockguy

23 is usually the approx. age at the latest when undergrads finish college.

That is no longer true. It sometimes takes longer than 4 to 5 years to get an undergraduate degree anymore for lots of reasons like having to wait to take classes when offered whenever they are not full, not being able to take a full load because of having to work your way through, etc.

There are a lot of young adults in the organization living with parents because the organization stunts their development by not allowing them to become educated so they wont depend upon their parents and organization so much.

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Would you ever consider Going Back?

by Honesty in

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after discovering what you have about the watchtower society would you ever consider going back to the jw's?

littlerockguy

Am I as wealthy as Bill Gates?

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Any Fans of The Doors?

by XJW4EVR in

i will admit that i am not a big fan of much of the music that came out of the counterculture.

however, i am a huge fan of the doors.

i find their music to be so far above the other music of that time.

littlerockguy

I love Riders of The Storm on the LA Woman album and I like Light My Fire and others by the Doors. Very relaxing music. Im a big fan of music around that time period.

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