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  Clearing the Laundromat of Propaganda

  by Jim_TX in

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  2. current

  well, today was 'wash day' at the laundromat.

  it is also the time that i rid the laundromat of the propaganda that seems to collect there.. you know what i mean.

  it seems to be a collection point for watchtower and awakes that jws seem to want to leave there.. today, i hit the jackpot!

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  Halloween Costumes

  by Jim_TX in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i was at coffee yesterday, and friends i was with started talking about halloween, and costumes.. after a bit, i got this 'revelation'!!

  i asked them.... "why not dress up as santa claus on halloween?".

  well, you'd have thunk i said that satan wuz jesus!

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  Joke: You know you are living in 2002 when...

  by Jim_TX in

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  2. humour

  you know you work in the 21st century (and you'd better get a life) when.... 21. cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.. 20. your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have email addresses.

  conversely, the only way you keep in touch with your family is by email.. 19. keeping up with sports entails adding espn's homepage to your bookmarks.. 18. you have a "to do list" that includes entries for lunch and bathroom breaks and they are the only ones that get crossed off.. 17. you have actually faxed your christmas list to your parents.. 16. pick up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.. 15. you consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow.. 14. you assume any question about whether to valet park or not is rhetorical.. 13. you refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.. 12. your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.. 11. your grocery list has been on your refrigerator so long some of the products don't even exist anymore (who else remembers tang?)..

  10. you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process.. 9. you get all excited when it's saturday so you can wear sweats to work.. 8. you refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.. 7. you find you really need powerpoint to explain what you do for a living.. 6. you normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.. 5. you think that "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable english phrases.. 4. you know the people at the airport hotels better than your next door neighbors.. 3. you ask your friends to "think out of the box" when making friday night plans.. 2. you think einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix.. 1. you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock..

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  Dallas Apostaparty

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i just got in from a long weekend spent in dallas, tx.. there wuz an 'apostafest' gathering held there - and it wuz a blast!.

  i think an informal head count would put total attendance at around 35 - 40 folks there.

  (no one was designated as 'attendant', so no official count was taken.).

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  Joke: A Little Kiss

  by Jim_TX in

  1. social
  2. humour

  four strangers travelled together in the same compartment of a. european train.

  two men and two women faced each other.. one woman was a very wealthy and sophisticated 70 year old lady who.

  was decked out in the finest of furs and jewelry.

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  Story: A horse of a different color

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many years ago, when i was living on my own i was living in a small cottage.

  my neighbor, david was the care-taker of about 3 or 4 horses on a piece of land about 3 or 4 acres.. now, i was young and didnt know better at first i was afraid of these large horses but once i learned about them essentially horses are like large puppy dogs.

  dumb puppy dogs.. these horses had gone and eaten all of their green grass in their area, so one day david got this brilliant idea.

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  Story: Sound Dept. (at Assembly)

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was a jw - many moons ago, i hung around the 'sound department' at assemblies.. they finally put me to work - and let me do things like string wire for speakers, install speakers, etc.. i eventually learned how to adjust the amplifiers for proper volume, too.. good experience and training, that i don't use to this day.. anyway - i also was allowed to adjust the microphones for the 'speaker' who would be giving the next talk.. this usually involved following the feller out to the podium, and raising, or lowering the microphone to the proper height fer picking up the words from the fellers' mouth.. some required very little adjustment, whilst others required major raising - or lowering.. this one time, i recall going out there, and they had used a new microphone stand - one that had a ring, or collar arrangement that you just squeezed, or rotated and lifted, to move the microphone up or down, as opposed to the older type that required one to unscrew a locking collar, and then raise or lower the microphone.. i had not tested this previously - and only seen others work it, but it looked easy enough.. so, i follow this 'big-wig' out there, stand there, grab the upper section of the microphone stand with one hand, and then with the other i am attempting to <grunt> <grunt> get it... to ... release.. it wouldn't budge!!!

  i was there, for what seemed like an eternity, trying to work this thing, then finally reached up and adjusted the horizontal arm - in a vain attempt to adjust the mic (it also refused to cooperate, and i think i only adjusted the microphone a total of 1/8").. the 'big-wig' speaker musta noticed my total and complete embarrassment (i usually turned beet-red in the face), and nodded that it was adjusted properly - so he could git on with his part.. i skeedadled off that stage - and made a mental note to figure out how to adjust that new type of microphone stand - later..

  sheesh!!!

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  Joke: ex-wifes' Cooking

  by Jim_TX in

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  2. humour

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  my ex-wife's cooking was a religious experience.. it was either a sacrifice or a burnt offering.. .

  jim tx.

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  Story: I get to compete

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as most know, competition as a jw was a taboo thing.

  i remember growing up - in grade school, and having to turn down many opportunities that may have helped me later in life - opportunities that involved 'competing', or receiving 'recognition'.

  oh, minor things like an invitation to be on the national junior honor society, seniors' honors night, and h.s.

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  Story: My first cats

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was sufficient for a single person such as myself, and i went about making it livable.. i got me a dog, weasel which i have written about and i then got me a couple of cats.

  this story is about how i acquired my first two cats.. i worked at a company where cats kinda got taken to and left.

  they were kinda wild after a while and other cats were born well, you know how it goes.. there was this one cute little female calico kitten that i would take lunch scraps to and others would also put out little bowls of milk for.. i started trying to get her confidence talking to her and letting her hear my voice.

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