Well, I wasn't born for 14 years after the movie's release, but I've had the joy of seeing it in my childhood. I instantly remembered the song from the movie as I read the title of the thread (and for that matter now I've got Mary Poppins songs going thru my head. Damn this thread ). I thought the child catcher was more funny than scary ("lolipops!").
crownboy
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang turns 35
by SheilaM indo you remember the movie lol i remember watching all the time when i was little
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Return To God, and He WIll Forgive You in a Large Way!
by AwakenedAndFree indid you leave the watchtower society and the true god ,too?.
i believe that god still helps some of the of the ones still "traped" in the org.
- god helped me greatly while i was still in.
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crownboy
I consider the bible to be the most evil book on earth.
Worse than an anti-Bush book, Stacy?
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I'm blind
by JH inthis is a test i received through email.
count the number of "f" that you see in the text below.
are you ready..... .
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crownboy
Somewhat similiar to Random, but it was the second "OF" that I missed.
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Total gobbledegook
by Simon inin the uk we have an organisation called the campaign for plain english who aim to promote simple, clear communications.
they also award the worst gobbledegook of the year.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3256770.stm.
here are the top 10.
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crownboy
Very funny Simon.
Actually Stacy, Arnold does not support gay marriage, and he most definitely did say those words, though it's somewhat unclear whether he was joking or genuinely misspoke. He does however support the more "PC" civil unions compromise.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/27/schwarzenegger.views/
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/8/27/221111.shtml
http://www.equality.org.za/news/2003/08/28arnold.php
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34327
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What do you belive happens to us after we die?
by Singing Man ini was raised a jehovah's witness and like most are aware, they presently belive that by and large everyone who dies ceases to exist.
i accepted this fate for most of my life and i guess i still do for the most part, but now that i do not go to the meetings what am i to accept death to be, as i will die as well as my friends and family at some point.
i think that idea of being in gods memory made sense to me as i have excepted it for forty five of my fifty years of being alive.
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crownboy
Agnostic on the issue of life after death, but since there is no solid proof that there is some sort of afterlife, my tendancy is to believe that I'll simply be what I was before I got here; nonexistant. But if it turns out I'm wrong and there really is something, I probably won't complain (), but I'm certainly not making any plans around such a thing happening.
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crownboy
Hillary is pure evil.
How so Pork Chop? "Pure evil" is pretty strong, don't you think? Does she eat babies for breakfast? Or declare questionable wars, at least ? Would there be a global economic collapse if Hillary took the oath of office? What exactly in her political record indicates that she's nothing more than a center-left New England style Democrat, and in fact that she's a lot worse?
I missed the debate Six, but I always like it when Sharpton is in on one of them. I'd actually like it if we could get a debate with maybe only about 4 or 5 candidates (Dean, Clark, Gephardt, Edwards, Kerry) so that there can be more than just brief replies to the questions. Hopefully, the candidates who can't win will gracefully bow out as they realize they have no chance of winning, but I strongly suspect Kuchinich and Sharpton will stick around untill the bitter end.
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Six:
Besides which, John Kerry would fulfill the military angle just as well,
Just the fact that they both were in Vietnam? Both wounded? The comparisons stop there it apears to me.
A person doesn't have to be some sort of career military man to be able to successfully work the "military angle", especially when you have Dubya as an opponent . But I was thinking more along the lines that Kerry has both military experience and political experience, whereas Clark is just a military man (not to minimize anything Clark did in the military of course). Even if being a high ranking military offical indeed put him in a position of being an administrator and a somewhat politican, the entire culture of the military is much different than anything Clark would face as president, so overall that would give Kerry more of an advantage than Clark, but obviously that does not disqualify him (and infact I favour Clark over Kerry).
As much as I like Al Sharpton ( ), there aren't a whole lot of new people being attracted to his campaign. There is also very little evidence that Dean has been actively repelling anyone (surely you don't buy into the "too liberal" label that our "liberally biased" media has attached to him?) that would normally vote Democratic. Only Sharpton, Kuchinich (too liberal) and Lieberman (too conservative. Or in reality trying to convince us that he is) have accomplished this. Clark is my number 2 choice because next to Dean he seems to be the guy most likely to bring in new voters. Dean's biggest problem will have to be overcoming his "too liberal" label brought on by his civil unions bill. The Republicans will try to make this into a wedge issue, and I think it will backfire in their faces (they'll force any Democratic nominee to take a stand on this issue BTW, and they'll all of course take the tepid "civil unions, but not gay marriage" stand that Dean has already taken), because I think most Americans can be convinced that civil unions won't bring about the end of western civilization. They can't point to anything else in Dean's record that could make him look "radical", so at some point they'll have to start debating on some real issues and quite frankly any Democrat with a real shot at the nomination can win those circumstances. And of course it doesn't hurt that Dean is the leading fundraiser of all the candidates.
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crownboy
Wes Clark seems like a nice candidate, but I would still take Dean over him (no need to cough, Six ). The economy trails "homeland security" big time in pols over what Americans care about most (whether this is a good sign or not is debatable), so Wes Clark's military experience, while admirable, isn't that important. Besides which, John Kerry would fulfill the military angle just as well, and he also has political experience. Howard Dean seems to have inspired new voters to come on board in the next election, something that could really make the difference in the end. A Dean/ Clark ticket would be great, but I think if Clark doesn't win the nomination, he'd rather have a high level cabinet position than be vice president, so I forsee John Edwards being the vice presidential candidate for whoever wins the nomination (because I doubt he'll win it himself).
But none of these national guys actually rank as my favourite politican. I greatly admire the Attorney General of my home state (and next governor of NY ), Elliot Spitzer, for going after the corrupt Wall Street and corporate types long before this stuff became national headlines.
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On your 21st birthday
by Stacy Smith ini still have a few months to go but i'm planning my day.
i want to go to vegas and play poker.
i love poker and play it quite often.
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crownboy
I went to work work during the day and school at night. I did get free lunch at work, though .
Yeah, I know, I'm boring . I doubt I would have done much better if I wasn't in a house full of JW's, but the highlight of my day would have been something better than the discussion of the Ontological Argument. Better luck next year.
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For Stacy Smith - Government Spending still climbs
by Phantom Stranger inconfounding president bush's pledges to rein in government growth, federal discretionary spending expanded by 12.5 percent in the fiscal year that ended sept. 30, capping a two-year bulge that saw the government grow by more than 27 percent, according to preliminary spending figures from congressional budget panels.
the sudden rise in spending subject to congress's annual discretion stands in marked contrast to the 1990s, when such discretionary spending rose an average of 2.4 percent a year.
not since 1980 and 1981 has federal spending risen at a similar clip.
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crownboy
"It's the run away spending of the Democratic congress, not the President that is at fault" (despite presidential veto power, of course)
*damn, the Repubs control both houses of Congress*
"The President is fighting a war on terror. To argue with his spending is to be un-American. Are you with America or the terrorists? You're either with us or against us. God bless America. "