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  The English Aversion To Root Beer.

  by Englishman in

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  when we were kids, our mothers would treat our cuts and grazes with an antiseptic cream called germoline.

  it's still widely used today.. to mask the antiseptic smell, thereby making the product more acceptable to kids, the manufacturers would mix in sassafras to the finished product.

  sassafras has a very distinctive smell.. root beer also contains sassafras, which duly imparts it's distinctive aroma to the drinker.. so, to your average brit anyway, drinking root beer is akin to swallowing antiseptic cream, because it smells just the same!.

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  My personal favorite root beer variety:
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  Answering Machines...What's your message?

  by myself in

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  right now mine is the standard leave your name, number, ect.

  hello, if this is who i think it is leave a message.

  if it isn't who i think it is leave a message anyways, maybe we'll do lunch.. if you you aren't who you think you are don't leave a message - get help!.

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  Mine is the usual name/number routine now. I once made one with some eerie bit of Vangelis music playing and slowed my voice down (multitrack recorders are great!) so that it sounded kinda like Igor saying "I'm sorry, the master is not home right now, but if you leave a short message I'm sure he will get back with you....when he returns <muah-hahahahahahaha laughter fading out>".

  I thought it came off pretty good. Then a JW friend of my mom calls - didn't leave a message but I heard later that it was because "some creep answered." That was what I was after!
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  How Do They Do It? JW at Catholic College Athlete

  by blondie in

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  http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/2/075827-6922-036.html

  poetry in motion.

  imagine the embarrassment to ball carriers if they knew they had been stopped by a poet.. the poet is brandon hoyte.

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  LOL wouldn't it be great if the WT had a football team to play against 'other' churches. Then we could read about their differences in the sports section:

  Watchtower defeats Holy Trinity

  First Christian over Dubs in last minute miracle

  WT resorts to 'hail mary' play for victory

  feel free to add
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  What Sort Of Brit Would you Be? Quiz.

  by Englishman in

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  i'm like mr. bean!.

  http://darrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htm.

  englishman.

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  I am 37.5% British, just like
  Madonna
  Just as happy in LA or London. Aren't the narrow roads in the UK quaint.
  
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  movies that make you ROFL

  by doodle-v in

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  what are the funniest movies that make you just die laughing?

  feel free to include some quotes!

  here are mine (list subject to change) .

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  "This Is Spinal Tap" - the 'Stonhenge' part in particular. I can't think of any movie scene that I've laughed harder at but I'm sure it's only me.
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  What search engine do you most often use and why?

  by berylblue in

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  very curious...there's a reason for this question.

  does anyone perceive if there is a proclivity toward a certain engine if one is, say, computer savvy?

  college grad?

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  Another Googleite here. It's fast and simple. I use the Yahoo Maps sometimes but that's about it for Yahoo anymore. When I'm searching I don't need to see gazzilliondyumpteen ads and latest news flashes.
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  Jehovah gets all the credit

  by Nosferatu in

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  i remember hearing (probably on the organization behind the name video) that there is no author listed on any watchtower publication, therefore all "praise" is given to jehovah god.. what a rip off.

  if someone who has written articles in the wt or awake gets kicked out leaves bethel and needs to go work in the real world, he can't use any of the articles he wrote in his port folio.

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  Doh! I was wanting to see what Jehovah's Beacon score was.
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  Interesting quote - October 1, 98 WT

  by Dawn in

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  if we want to worship god acceptably, we must know the truth.

  this is an important issue.

  our eternal happiness depends on it.

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  ... greatest Bible scholar who has ever lived namely Frederick William Franz ...

  Oh my achin' azz. Well, uh, I do believe I've heard it all now, anti-typically speaking.

  Take out the space in the credentials and you'll get a clearer picture of this whole mess.

  'BAMA Studies in Religion. Go Tide.
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  Who doesn't follow the "politics" and feuds on this board?

  by berylblue in

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  i am so in the dark.

  i do not know what's going on and, quite frankly, i don't care to.

  perhaps there is bliss in ignorance.

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  I stay away from the fueding threads. Saw way too much of that arguing crap growing up and I have no desire to get involved with it in real life and even less so here.
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  Why Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses Allowed To Freely Express Themselves?

  by minimus in

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  it's a simple fact.

  jw's cannot freely express themselves.

  they can't freely tell another about a doubt or a question that they might have for fear they could be exposed to the elders.

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  All organizations prescribe order and discipline as a vital constituent of their organism.

  He's quite right you know. But it's not only corporate organizations etc. that fit the bill. Name one cult that does not prescribe order and discipline in their ranks. David Koresh surely prescribed it as did Jim Jones etc. etc. etc.