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  What would you do with 200 million dollars?

  by annalice in

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  ok ,so i'm really bumed that i didnt win this last weeks mega millons.

  the first thing i was going to do with my 200 mill.

  was buy a nice big billboard right across from bethal and have it say "the truth is a lie!

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  At 4% interest, $200,000,000 will yield $8,000,000/year. Even if you pay 50% tax on the lottery winnings up front, that's still $4,000,000 in interest every year!

  Damn, I could buy a house for each of my kids and myself - in California! - just with the first year's interest. And STILL quit my job!

  Oh, and then I'd support a couple dozen charities and see the world and like that. When I wasn't traveling I think I'd stay home and write poetry.

  And I think I'd start collecting Craftsman furniture and Lalique glass.

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  LADIES: .....Do you HONESTLY want your husband to be your best friend?

  by Bourne in

  1. jw
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  some women i have known speak of their desire to have the person they marry to also be their best friend.......other's relate that they already.

  have a best friend in the form of a longtime girlfriend, and would rather have their husband be their "husband".

  so.....which is ladies?

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  yknot,

  best friends are required to let you wallow in self-pity, veg on a tub of Blue Bell and get mani/pedis and eyebrow shaping. My husband serves as the person who says 'get over it, go take a hike around the track, and lets go canoeing!

  I'm tempted to say "same treatment, different method" - but, come to think of it, that's because the girly notions of "best friend" don't appeal to me at all. Self-pity and overeating are solitary pleasures. When I have to vent I usually turn to my sister, because she's done the same to/with me.

  With my "best friends," when I have them, I discuss the meaning of life and other spiritual matters brain candy

  "best friend" would be uncomfortable and would turn him into a metrosexual

  Actually, I like metrosexuality except when it gets banal. My husband would be a metrosexual if he weren't sorta lazy - in short, he's perfect My dad is a metrosexual; had a magnificent wardrobe, and when he went out with my mom (frequently), he had the entire family helping him pick the accessories for his outfit. We all enjoyed it and he always looked fantastic. But I would never have gone for a manicure with him, no

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  "The Seven Sermons to the Dead" by CG Jung written 12/16-2/17

  by frankiespeakin in

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  for the mystics or those who like to read some stuff about or from cg jung this is might grab your interest.

  i think he wrote this while delving deep into the unconscious which is interesting in itself, and no telling what one might find.. http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/sermon0.htm.

  the seven sermons to the dead.

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  Hey, I liked this when I read it about ten years ago. I actually understood as much as ten percent of it, for about five minutes at a time.

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  Share one or two interesting things about you we probably didn't know

  by Gopher in

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  we have such an interesting group of people from around the world on this board.

  it might be interesting to have a thread where you discuss a hobby, something interesting that happened in the past, somewhere you've been, etc.. not deep, dark confessions - just interesting stuff.. .

  * i have travelled into all 48 american states that are not named alaska or hawaii.. * for the past few years, i have had a slight walking impairment due to a form of arthritis known as ankylosing spondylitis.

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  • My kids and I were studying lapidary for a while; the local gem & mineral club had a kick-ass workshop at the YMCA.
  • My 8th-grade English teacher taught a workshop on science fiction – back when most people still thought "science fiction" and "literature" didn't belong in the same sentence. Supplementary reading was provided by ME – I had three or four dozen novels and a collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction stretching back to the fifties, mostly flea market finds.
  • My parents owned a music shop in Berkeley, Lundberg's Fretted Instruments. They opened it in the right place at the right time – right at the beginning of the folk music boom, back in the early sixties. It thrived until the recession brought on by the gas crisis in the early 70's, but it stayed open till my mother died.
  • I spent my late childhood and teen years in a lush three-story house built in 1906; rumor has it that it was designed by Julia Morgan or possibly Bernard Maybeck. My parents filled it with Tiffany lamps, oriental rugs, and period (ca. 1890-1935) furniture. Period appliances, too; only the fridge, washer and dryer were built after about 1930.

  The garage took up the entire first floor and had a turntable in it so that you didn't have to worry about how to park six or eight cars in it. The turntable was nonfunctional by the time my parents bought the house, so they only ever kept four or five cars in it (all but one built before 1942).

  • For several years, I was in charge of the receiving line (actually, the "downing out clueless hecklers" line at the Gay Prom in Hayward, CA.

  There, I think that's enough :)

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  AWWW, cute little JW

  by 5thGeneration in

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  Well, we gotta give the kid points for articulateness, manners and courage.

  But I will say that I was a jaydub when little fashion statements like necklaces on boys would have gotten him a talking-to from the elders, maybe even a special needs talk. Good on him for wearing it!

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  Your favorite Sunday breakfast

  by Layla33 in

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  since i am about to partake (*smile*) in my favorite sunday breakfast, i thought it would be fun for everyone to describe their favorite breakfast here.. sunday breakfast was always a big deal for my family and growing up, it was the one day and time that we actually sat together had breakfast and talked about our week and sat for a good hour or so just catching up with each other.. for over 20 years, this breakfast consisted of bacon, sausage (kielbasa or italian), biscuits, eggs (cheese or plain), and grits.

  to this day, i still feel it's a special nice time.. do share, i thought it would be fun to see other people's traditions on sunday breakfast....

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  I've been having way too much fun with my aebleskiver pan lately. There are a lot of recipes for aebleskivers on the Net, some of them rather intimidating for the non-cook – but really, all you need to know is that anything that makes a good pancake or batter bread (think muffins, banana bread, etc) will make a good aebleskiver. Saturday, I used cornbread batter (from scratch, right off the back of the Albers Corn Meal box). Today, I think I'll try this sweet potato pancake recipe.

  Oh, and a side of sausage flowers and scrambled eggs doesn't hurt either.

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  Two Questions: 1) Hesitancy discussing salvation, 2) Marriage in Paradise?

  by EverAStudent in

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  2. beliefs

  for the better part of a year, my wife and i have been meeting with a team of jws.

  they teach us jw dogmas, and we use it as an opportunity to expose them to the orthodox gospel of jesus christ.

  it took quite a long time to figure out what their "plan of salvation" was, as they seemed reluctant to just spell it out.

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  <hijack>
  EverAStudent,

  the unbelievers confess their guilt on their knees as they confess that Jesus is Lord

  Technically, this is repentance - so the standard end-times theology, at least this version of it, has God destroying repentant sinners. This is why I'm not a Christian, though I have the highest respect for Jesus.

  I only joined the JW's because they were "no-hellers." I left because they were turning me into a judgemental she-prick.
  </hijack>

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  So who loves the Big Red Box? Isn't it better than sliced bread?

  by oompa in

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  stumbled upon one at a harris teeter here in nc.

  geeze it is amazing.

  a buck a day...how simple.

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  oompa,

  is it just a buck, and are you talking downloads?

  No, we get our dvd's in the mail, the old fashioned way :) and the $17/month is about the price of one night at the movies for our family. For that we get as many movies as we care to watch - usually about 10-12. I know they're not brand new releases, but I just don't care. I'm still looking forward to movies that came out two or three years ago, because I didn't get around to them when they were new. (Pan's Labyrinth is creeping up toward the top of my queue.)

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  So who loves the Big Red Box? Isn't it better than sliced bread?

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  stumbled upon one at a harris teeter here in nc.

  geeze it is amazing.

  a buck a day...how simple.

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  Yeah, but with Netflix you don't even have to leave the house.

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  Wow! TV is stupid!

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  2. friends

  i sat down to watch some tv today... our tv only pick up 3 channels.. and stuff worth watching is few and far between.

  it's amazing how much mindless drivel is being broadcasted.. .

  deal or no deal: where an overactive lunatic runs around the stage hyperventilating, while simultaniously showing off his/her amazing random-number-generator skills by choosing completely arbitrary numbers and winning money for it.

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  Devil's advocate here :)

  • Extreme Engineering
  • Mythbusters
  • African American Lives
  • History Detectives
  • ImageMakers (independent short films)
  • The Jewish Americans
  • Martin Yan's China – great stuff; today they showed a sidewalk vendor making sugar candy in the shape of assorted animals. The techniques were almost identical to glassblowing - but smaller scale and lower temperatures :)

  Do you get any PBS stations at all?

  gently feral