Posts by RisingEagle

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First time I got Dfd was hilarious

by okiesooner1966 in

i was sixteen, my dad was an eld i think po at the time.

i did'nt want to go back to the meeting right after they read my letter but because of the you live under my roof policy i had no choice.

it was the sunday meeting after they had read my letter on thursday.

RisingEagle

I scared them so bad everyone ended up in their seats ten miutes before it even started.

That's because as of that last Thurday night you were from the Debbil. They didn't want to catch your Debbil-cooties. Was it hard to comb your hair after Thursday with those horns sticking out of your head?

It took everything I had to keep from laughing my ass from the row where all the diffs were sitting. At he time they were three in that row all about my age and younger it was awesome.

My older brother is right around your age and was involved in some stuff that got his arse DA'd along with several other kids from other congo's. Sadly, he found his way back to the jw's and is either an elder or ms now (I have no idea which because we don't talk, I think he thinks the Debbil got me.)

Eagle

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Looking for anyone from the Ardmore, Oklahoma area.

by sooner7nc in

hi,i'm looking for anybody that was in the ardmore area from the mid 70's to the mid 90's.sooner7nc

RisingEagle

anyone ever eat at molly murphys in okc..... was by all the approved hotels.... always had those fools standing outside in costume?
they get you inside and try their darndest to make an ass out of you?

Me: (tap, tap, tap on the waiter's arm) Um, where's the bathroom?

Waiter: You have to go to the bathroom?

Me: Yes

Waiter: Okay. (screaming) DOES ANYONE ELSE NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM? THIS GUY"S GOTTA GO - did you need to go number 1 or number 2?

Me: Number 1

Waiter: THIS GUY"S GOTTA GO PEE-PEE, DOES ANYONE ELSE IN THE RESTAURANT GOTTA TAKE A PEE LIKE THIS GUY? I KNOW LET'S MAKE A POTTY TRAIN! POTTY TRAIN, POTTY TRAIN (waiter makes a circuit of the whole restaurant) WE"RE TAKING THESE PEOPLE TO THE BATHROOM, DOES ANYONE ELSE NEED TO PEE?

You finally get to the bathroom and there was about 5 gallons of ice in the urinal.

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Everyone say hi to VoidEater

by Gopher in

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voideater joined us in the last couple days, and he has put up some very thoughtful and interesting posts.. so everyone say hello!

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and voideater: i hope you will share more of your story -- it sounds like you have a very good one to tell..

RisingEagle

Hi and welcome aboard the board! I look forward to reading your posts.

Eagle

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Looking for anyone from the Ardmore, Oklahoma area.

by sooner7nc in

hi,i'm looking for anybody that was in the ardmore area from the mid 70's to the mid 90's.sooner7nc

RisingEagle

Now that so many other Okra-colons are popping up, maybe we should get an official apostafest meet and greet started. If we got together at the Olive Garden we could call it an a-pasta-fest.

Eagle

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Looking for anyone from the Ardmore, Oklahoma area.

by sooner7nc in

hi,i'm looking for anybody that was in the ardmore area from the mid 70's to the mid 90's.sooner7nc

RisingEagle

This is from September regarding ~~constrictions~~ conventions:

On an earlier thread about ice cream I remembered a snack that was sold at assemblies and that started me thinking about some of my memories of childhood at conventions/assemblies. I guess it was the taste/smell association because even today when I go to various convention halls for home improvement expos, car shows and the like it takes me right back to the past. I have many memories wrapped around the conventions and experienced different things because I have lots of elders in the family that were used, literally, for food service, the accounting office, security and dramas. As a kid that had limited play experience due to the upbringing, I remember some assemblies as big playgrounds and some as 'responsibilities' because I was required to work. Once those horrid plastic sandwich-making gloves came off it was time to explore and see how close I could come to getting into trouble (as much as a preteen true believer JW goody-two-shoes nerd could get). How about you? Do you have a memory or two to share? I'll start
I learned to make coffee at an assembly when I was 8. They used those huge percolator urns in those days that seemed to take an hour to brew. There's some fun for an 8 yr old, dealing with grumpy half-awake elders that had to work early who were ticked off that the coffee wasn't ready. That was back when they still took cash for food purchases. I remember jockeying with my siblings for the 'best' table to work. A sister with a cash drawer sat in the back and you told them how much the purchase was and handed them the money. They made change and gave it to you to return to the purchaser. I always tried to work the table with the prettiest sister (I said I was a nerd, not stupid) cashier. One morning I had sister olderthandirt at my table and she was so slow at returning change that my older brother was told to take over because the elder in charge thought it was my fault the line was so slow. Well that sent me off bawling my eyes out (hey, I was 8) wiping them on my fine faux silk clip-on tie, straight to my dad who was manning a contribution box. He showed me how to make change on the spot and I made a triumphant return at lunchtime. So when I had sister smellslikeshoes as my cashier I could walk up with the money and tell her how much the purchase was and how much to return to me to give back. Now that I think about it, making change is pretty good skill to have these days (thanks dad).
Another year we were recruited by a relative in the accounting office to sort food tickets. I guess they ran low on them so we had to go through bags of them and separate the full 10 ticket pages and re-staple them into new books. I find that odd now, given that we were working for a publishing company. So after working through an afternoon session assembling new ticket books the elder in charge picked up a random book and counted the pages. Yup, one page too many (it wasn't me I know how to count. I can even make change). They pulled some of the sisters at work counting the cash drawers to audit the newly made ticket books. NO way was there going to be a fortunate witless buy a ticket book with an extra dollar's worth of tickets. Two thoughts: if JW's are so honest wouldn't they have returned the extra page they didn't pay for AND how did they know that jehoobers direction didn't cause that ticket book to have that extra page so some starving pioneer could have a pudding and a sandwich? hmmm
Last one for now. I remember speaking with an elder relative who was assigned to the nightshift security squad at an assembly. Why? Because there was talk of the homeless in the downtown area trying to break in and steal. Steal what, the fine bound books before they were released the next day? The muffin-egg sandwiches or possibly the awesome apple danish (had to be the apple ones because there were always cheese danish left over they tried to sell by the box load after the final session)? Nope. The spirit gum that was used to attach the beards to the actors faces in the drama. Apparently spirit gum theft was so rampant at conventions that a MS was assigned to be 'in charge' of the spirit gum. I met the guy they assigned that year to watch over the stinky stuff. He was honored to have been asked.

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Looking for anyone from the Ardmore, Oklahoma area.

by sooner7nc in

hi,i'm looking for anybody that was in the ardmore area from the mid 70's to the mid 90's.sooner7nc

RisingEagle

WTH? I leave the board for a couple of hours and the Okies start crawling out of the wood work. Where have you guys been? The question was asked if anyone was from Ardmore from the 70's to the 90's. My question back is why would anyone live in Ardmore for that long?

But to answer the question, no I am not from that area. I'm from Moore and now live in Okc, sadly.

Eagle

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Possible good news for Spelling perfectionists.

by misanthropic in

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well for the posters using mac anyway.

has anyone else with a mac updated to the new mac os x leopard?

i'm loving it since my spelling is sometimes atrocious- see i'd have misspelled that already otherwise ;-).

RisingEagle

I just checked my wife's Mac and it's running Leopard. I'll have to ask her when she gets home if she's noticed. That's the most time I've ever spent on her computer, btw. I have almost no knowledge of Mac's and how they operate. It looks nice though, it's thin and the screen is huge!

Eagle

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Ex-JWs Who Are Now Christian...

by deaconbluez in

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do you find that you've had to re-establish your familiarity with scriptures in other versions of the bible based on the translation errors in the nwt?

if so, which texts?

RisingEagle

There just happened to be one that came up last night. Galatians 2:16

NIV states "Faith IN Jesus Christ"

NWT says "Faith TOWARD Jesus Christ"

Twice in the same verse. I'm not a biblical scholar and don't have any of the reference books even needed to see which is more correct, if indeed either one is, but I know the difference in the words 'in' and 'toward'.

Eagle

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Possible good news for Spelling perfectionists.

by misanthropic in

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well for the posters using mac anyway.

has anyone else with a mac updated to the new mac os x leopard?

i'm loving it since my spelling is sometimes atrocious- see i'd have misspelled that already otherwise ;-).

RisingEagle

Uvula probably scene this before know. It's own spiel chick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg

Eagerly

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JERK

by free2beme in

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in this world there is a title, a title that makes people upset to hear mentioned.

yet more often then not, it simply fits.

the title is jerk, or basically someone that is a complete ass and not someone who is being nice or a good person.

RisingEagle

That's interesting marmot. I on the other hand try not to use what might be considered 'foul language' in public. In that sense 'jerk' to me is acceptable because it doesn't strike me as 'cussing'. Although now that I think about it, it's really just exchanging one word for another. The tone and meaning of 'asshole' and 'jerk' would have been the same in that incident. My thinking about the difference in the words has to be some latent jw garbage I have yet to let go.