Oh, I remember that, all right. The night before Jaws came out, I had my first baby--after a long and difficult labor during which my JW husband went home and took a nap (he got to the hospital just in time to see the birth, then went home again). The next night I expected him to spend some time with me. But he decided to spend the evening instead driving 60 miles to another city to watch Jaws. Took me 10 more years to do it, but I finally got rid of that bastard. :D My "baby" turned 30 a couple of days ago. Boy, do I feel old!
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30 Years Ago Today, 1975, Terror Soon To Come..
by Englishman infor everyone who went to see "jaws"!
yup!
it's 30 years ago today since the film was released upon an unsuspecting public.
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2005 Barbecue Is Definitely On!
by Englishman insaturday seems to be much preferred over sunday, so this years bbq will be held on saturday, july 9th, commencing around 2 pm.
location is our home in weston super mare.
as usual, the day will be very boozy and proceedings will conclude in the waverley pub.
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I've seen Kent quite a few times, but I've never had to witness him singing and dancing, thank god. Watching him pilot a boat while inebriated was enough of a thrill for me. :-)
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The Best of Brits.
by Englishman injust curious... we had a poll here in the uk as to who was the most famous brit of all time.
i was so underwhelmed that i can't remember who even won it.
it wasn't churchill, that's for sure.
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jukief
Mike Hooper, without a doubt!
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Ok now ..what up with the English?
by hillbilly in.
you wont discuss your own politics with out a browbeating from old hill.... but eman starts a thread about the us second amendment to it's consitution and all sorts of brits chime in.. for the record... i really dont care about your big-eared prince and his "gnawer"* new bride.... why do ya'all care about my guns?.
*gnawer.. a woman so ugly that if one woke up in bed (after a drunken night) with her they would gnaw their arm off to escape...rather than chance waking her in the daylight.
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jukief
All I want to say is that I absolutely ADORE the English.
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What movies make you think of the Borg?...
by Hecklerboy ini was watching a great sci-fi movie the other day (chronicles of riddick) and there was a phrase in the movie that jumped out at me.
a soldier was being promoted and he said the phrase "obedience without question, loyalty till underverse comes".
i thought "wow, just replace underverse with armageddon and that sound just like the witnesses".
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jukief
I think Pleasantville is the one movie that most closely describes what it's like to be an apostate in a JW world. A great movie in its own right, but the similarities to dub-think are really amazing.
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We're in Fort Collins.
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You know you are from Portland when....
by Xander inokay, now the *sad* think about this list is that everything on it is absolutely 100% true with no exaggeration or hyperbole.
(if you don't get it....well, you've obviously never been to portland): .
you know you are from portland when?.you throw an aluminum can in the trash and feel guilty.
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jukief
Hey, I used to work for Tektronix, too! I sure do miss Portland. But not Beaverton. :D
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Are Circuit Overseers Stuck in Their Jobs?
by metatron induring a recent c.o.
visit, the latest itinerant from the society seemed a bit subdued as he talked about the difficulties.
of his employment.
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jukief
My brother is a CO. He's 46 years old. He was an elder for almost 20 years, and he was a regular pioneer for about 10 years before they appointmented him CO. In the last two years before he was appointed, he served as a temporary CO to fill in for people from time to time. When his son graduated from high school, he went off to Bethel for a couple of years. Now he's engaged to be married but is also pioneering full time. Ah, such a spiritual family! He owned his own home and had a regular job. I had to admire him for going down to 30 hours a week at work so he could pioneer. He's pretty sincere, but I also happen to think he's a self-righteous bastard. He's hard and cold, too. I don't envy the poor brothers in his circuit. Anyway, my brother has a cushy set-up, especially for a first-time appointment. His assignment is a large southern city. He doesn't have to travel outside the city, so he has a duplex where he lives year round (I don't know whether the Society owns it or the local circuit--it's not attached to a KH) that the local brothers remodeled before he moved in (new carpet, etc.). It's large and quite nice. He's also got his brand new car, which gets replaced every three years. Health insurance, two weeks of vacation--it's just like a real job, except for the pay. The thing is, though, that every week the local brothers give him quite a bit of cash. I think he's a lot better off financially than he was when he was working and making a house payment. He's doing so well, in fact, that he and his wife are going to the Bahamas for their vacation--all paid for by the local brothers' contributions. What a racket, eh? He's a lot happier now because he was getting to hate his job and it was physically taxing. He couldn't had done it until old age, but he can do this job until he drops dead, and he probably will. But if he wants to "retire," he'll probably have it made because his circuit is in a pretty afluent city and he's making connections with lots of rich brothers. I don't think he has anything to worry about. Plus, because he worked so many years, he has a lot paid into social security (assuming it's still solvent by the time he gets old).
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Mozilla Firefox Browser version 0.9
by Yizuman inhas anyone tried this browser yet?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ .
i love it and the only thing this browser doesn't see on this forum when posting is using the smilies when creating or replying a topic, only msie can see it.
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jukief
Using it now on my PC laptop. I also use it on my iBook.
I'm the editor of a daily electronic newsletter that deals with the Windows/computer industry. The author, Paul Thurrott, has been telling people for years to use something other than IE; he recommends Mozilla or Opera. Here's an article we published today:
Browser Wars II? Alternative Browser Downloads Surge in Wake of IE Exploits
The long-stagnant Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) might command about 95 percent of the Web browser market but a recent spate of security vulnerabilities seems to be finally helping IE's competitors make some inroads into the market. Even the usually staid United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has taken the unusual step of advising users to switch to a different browser because of IE's many attacks (see the URL below). The result has been a bonanza for safer browser alternatives such as Mozilla and Opera.
The Mozilla Foundation reports that daily downloads of its Mozilla browser suite and Firefox Web browser have doubled since US-CERT's recommendation; on the day of the US-CERT announcement, the foundation says that users downloaded the products more than 200,000 times. "More people seem to have reached their threshold level of frustration dealing with problems with IE and Windows and have found the Mozilla software a good solution to solving those problems," Chris Hofmann, The Mozilla Foundation's director of engineering, said. "US-CERT's recommendation is just a reflection of the trend we have seen for quite some time."
Experts point to several obvious problems with IE. First, the browser is so widely used that it's a natural attack point. Second, IE is integrated directly into the Windows OS, a curious and ultimately damaging decision that made a previously secure Windows NT-based system vulnerable to new types of attacks. Third, IE technologies such as ActiveX have proven to be highly insecure, and many IE attacks exploit ActiveX-related vulnerabilities. Microsoft will address the latter concern in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) but the company has no plans to provide this functionality in other Windows versions or to completely decouple the browser from its OSs.The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software say that they have solutions for the first problem. If the current download rates continue, the browser alternatives might soon be nibbling away at IE's massive market share. If that happens, Web designers will have to take those browsers into account more often when they design Web sites. And because Mozilla and Opera adhere more closely to Web standards than IE does, that situation could eventually lead to dramatic changes on the Web in general. Perhaps future IE versions would also be more standards-compliant as a result, which would make the process of developing Web sites much easier because developers could simply target one standard. Today, IE's market share causes Web developers to target IE's nonstandard technical idiosyncrasies first.
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Weird Meeting
by iiz2cool inon the way home from work today i stopped at a local grocery store to pick up a few things.
when i got into the store i saw an elder?
from my first hall in there talking to a couple of women i assumed were sisters?.
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jukief
I think you should have yelled BOO really loud and watched him jump.