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  grammer and spelling

  by Hortensia in

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  i noticed someone correcting spelling for a couple of posters.

  it reminded me of a couple of things that really bug me.. "momentarily" as in "thank you for holding.

  someone will be with you momentarily.

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  bigmouth

  Well this is turning out just fine!
  
  journey on, Ms McDucket has put you straight on the British spelling we use in NZ. But MsMcd., New Zealand is no where near Europe! LOL
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  grammer and spelling

  by Hortensia in

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  i noticed someone correcting spelling for a couple of posters.

  it reminded me of a couple of things that really bug me.. "momentarily" as in "thank you for holding.

  someone will be with you momentarily.

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  bigmouth

  Hortensia, one of my earliest posts was on grammar and spelling. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek and posted on the Bible Research forum.
  
  It backfired terribly! I was attacked like an Arab in a synagogue. I hope others will not be so quick to criticise you.
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  Remember the slide presentations

  by Omegaman in

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  how many of you remember how special the meetings were when we found out they were going to show slides instead of a public talk.

  when i was a kid i remember how excited i was..........i still remember some of the slides.

  an old one from the 70's where a blind girl keeps asking her dad when she will be able to see this and that and the father would say " in the new system my dear".

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  We used to have a CO that would do slide shows regularly. May have been to lazy to prepare a talk. But that was a long time ago.
  
  They cured my insomnia.
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  Post the weirdest conversation that you had with a JW

  by jambon1 in

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  there are quite a few but the one that got me wondering wtf i was part of was when an elder explained to a group of us that he wanted to actually see the worldly people being executed when the end comes.

  i thought to myself "you unbelievable bastard".

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  "...bizaar bizzar bizar (pick one) "- LOL white dove, I wont pick any of them but your weird experience reminds of a day my wife and I were visiting a friend, (CO's daughter and husband), and completely out of the blue tells us how fascinating it was to squat over a mirror and study her girl bits!!
  
  Put me off sea food for life!
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  Inconvenient Watchtower Anagrams!

  by professor in

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  as you probably know, an anagram is made by taking all of the letters in a word or phrase and re-arranging them to spell something else.

  sometimes it can be humourously approprite what you can come up with.

  for instance, you can re-arrange the letters in.

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  bigmouth

  Brilliant professor!!
  
  Another idle day at the office was it? ;)
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  Why dont our friends from across the pond "get" football? (soccer)

  by ninja in

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  do you find it boring?

  have any of you been to a football match in britain?...why hasn't it taken off in amerikay?

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  bigmouth

  Good reply CRR!
  
  We have this discussion from time to time on JWD with everyone putting their humourous barbs in. But I read an interesting thing some time ago with an intriguing theory. It was asserted that the JFK government was of the opinion that soccer was a sport preferred by commies, commie sympathisers or anti-American regimes therefore it was deemed un-American to play it. It would also be embracing a South American culture and may be attractive to border jumpers.
  
  However, the US have turned out a number of fine players around the world and have a formidable national side.
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  What is your preferred method of communication?

  by Crumpet in

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  i was prompted to think further about this today when i was reading the following in a book called "headhunters":.

  "e-mails are a love of mine.

  i prefer them to communicating by word of mouth.

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  bigmouth

  Intercourse
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  Words Jehovers Witnesses Pronounce wrong...

  by vomit in

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  jehover being the most obvious.

  why was there a group in every hall that pronounced some words like a bad english accent.

  also why is it pretty universal, i.e.

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  Had a brother who was a bit of a clown and really struggled with reading. He gave a #4 talk one night about David routing various kings that had upset Jehovah. The only problem is that we pronounce 'routing' as 'rooting'! There wasn't a dry eye in the hall!
  
  More recently a Lebanese elder who speaks Arabic was horrified that we mispronounced the city of Ai as the Americans would do, i.e.' ay eye' when it should be 'ah ee'. Unfortunately all the recordings of these place names that have an 'i' in them get the American pronunciation. He wasn't happy.
  'Unfortunately the British have been affected with this blight on the English language.'- we have the same tendency in NZ too gumb. (Including my darling wife!)
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  Watchtower Society Announces New Governing Body Member

  by Arthur in

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  national times newswire - april 9, 2007 .

  radio host don imus joins the jehovahs witness governing body.

  arthur, national times staff writer.

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  bigmouth

  I can confidently confirm this is a true story. It has the ring of truth to it.
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  New track work

  by sspo in

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  once again the witnesses are being pushed out there for new track work, inviting people to the district convention for the summer.. this is the third time in a few months that they go nuts in trying to cover their territory.. another way to try to get the dead witnesses out there and preach.. when will it end?

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  Whaaat?? You mean it's 'DUCT' tape!!!???