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  Strange happenings on the JWDF...

  by sonnyboy in

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  for some reason, when i click on my user name i'm not getting the usual screen (with post history, profile, etc).

  inistead, it's opening up in dreamweaver.

  i'm assuming that simon used this program to create the site.. is this happening to anyone else (at least anyone who has dreamweaver installed on their computers)?

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  Strange happenings on the JWDF...

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for some reason, when i click on my user name i'm not getting the usual screen (with post history, profile, etc).

  inistead, it's opening up in dreamweaver.

  i'm assuming that simon used this program to create the site.. is this happening to anyone else (at least anyone who has dreamweaver installed on their computers)?

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  Valis

  maybe you have some default set to open asp or html pages in dreamweaver..
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  Guild Wars players???

  by FMZ in

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  anyone else play this game?

  it's really very good, i was going to get into wow but a friend persuaded me to play gw instead, very glad i did.

  graphics are amazing, people are nice, and the strategy aspect of the game is unbeatable..

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  Valis

  Come to the Skywall server and help me beat the tauren out of the cows...MOOOOOOO!!!!! For the Alliance!!!!
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  Guild Wars players???

  by FMZ in

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  anyone else play this game?

  it's really very good, i was going to get into wow but a friend persuaded me to play gw instead, very glad i did.

  graphics are amazing, people are nice, and the strategy aspect of the game is unbeatable..

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  Valis

  Oi! FMZ, don't wanna come play witht he big dogs eh?
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  Mark Twain: Letters From The Earth

  by Cellist in

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  has anybody ever read mark twain's "letters from the earth"?

  i've just picked up an old paperback copy.

  so far it's very funny.

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  Valis

  A Telephonic Conversation
  "I touched the bell and this talk ensued"
  by Mark Twain
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  consider that a conversation by telephone—when you are simply sitting by and not taking any part in that conversation—is one of the solemnest curiosities of this modern life. Yesterday I was writing a deep article on a sublime philosophical subject while such a conversation was going on in the room. I notice that one can always write best when somebody is talking through a telephone close by. Well, the thing began in this way. A member of our household came in and asked me to have our house put into communication with Mr. Bagley's, down town. I have observed, in many cities, that the gentle sex always shrink from calling up the central office themselves. I don't know why, but they do. So I touched the bell, and this talk ensued:—
  
  Central Office. [Gruffly.] Hello!
  
  I. Is it the Central Office?
  
  C. 0. Of course it is. What do you want ?
  
  I. Will you switch me on to the Bagleys, please ?
  
  C. 0. All right. Just keep your ear to the telephone.
  
  Then I heard, k-look, k-look, k'look— klook-klook-klook-look-look! then a horrible "gritting" of teeth, and finally a piping female voice: Y-e-s? [Rising inflection.] Did you wish to speak to me?"
  
  Without answering, I handed the telephone to the applicant, and sat down. Then followed that queerest of all the queer things in this world,—a conversation with only one end to it. You hear questions asked; you don't hear the answer. You hear invitations given; you hear no thanks in return. You have listening pauses of dead silence, followed by apparently irrelevant and unjustifiable exclamations of glad surprise, or sorrow, or dismay. You can't make head or tail of the talk, because you never hear anything that the person at the other end of the wire says. Well, I heard the following remarkable series of observations, all from the one tongue, and all shouted,—for you can't ever persuade the gentle sex to speak gently into a telephone:—
  
  Yes? Why, how did that happen?
  
  Pause.
  
  What did you say?
  
  Pause.
  
  Oh, no, I don't think it was.
  
  Pause.
  
  No! Oh, no, I didn't mean that. I meant, put it in while it is still boiling,—or just before it comes to a boil.
  
  Pause.
  
  WHAT?
  
  Pause.
  
  I turned it over with a back stitch on the selvage edge.
  
  Pause.
  
  Yes, I like that way, too; but I think it 's better to baste it on with Valenciennes or bombazine, or something of that sort. It gives it such an air,—and attracts so much notice.
  
  Pause.
  
  It 's forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-fourth to ninety-seventh inclusive. I think we ought all to read it often.
  
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  Perhaps so; I generally use a hair-pin.
  
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  What did you say ? [Aside] Children, do be quiet!
  
  Pause.
  
  Oh! B flat! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!
  
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  Since when?
  
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  Why, I never heard of it.
  
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  You astound me! It seems utterly impossible!
  
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  Who did?
  
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  Good-ness gracious!
  
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  Well, what is this world coming to? Was it right in church?
  
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  And was her mother there?
  
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  Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! What did they do?
  
  Long Pause.
  
  I can't be perfectly sure, because I haven't the notes by me; but I think it goes something like this: te-rolly-loll-loll, loll lolly-loll-loll, O tolly-loll-loll-lee-ly-li-i-do! And then repeat, you know.
  
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  Yes, I think it is very sweet,—and very solemn and impressive, if you get the andantino and the pianissimo right.
  
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  Oh, gum-drops, gum-drops! But I never allow them to eat striped candy. And of course they can't, till they get their teeth, any way.
  
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  What?
  
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  Oh, not in the least,—go right on. He's here writing,—it does n't bother him.
  
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  Very well, I'll come if I can. [Aside.] Dear me, how it does tire a person's arm to hold this thing up so long! I wish she'd—
  
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  Oh, no, not at all; I like to talk,—but I'm afraid I'm keeping you from your affairs.
  
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  Visitors?
  
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  No, we never use butter on them.
  
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  Yes, that is a very good way; but all the cook-books say they are very unhealthy when they are out of season. And he does n't like them, any way,—especially canned.
  
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  Oh, I think that is too high for them; we have never paid over fifty cents a bunch.
  
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  Must you go? Well, good-by.
  
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  Yes, I think so. Good-by.
  
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  Four, o'clock then—I'll be ready. Good-by.
  
  Pause.
  
  Thank you ever so much. Good-by.
  
  Pause.
  
  Oh, not at all!—just as fresh—Which? Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that. Good-by.
  
  [Hangs up the telephone and says, "Oh, it does tire a person's arm so!"]
  
  A man delivers a single brutal "Good-by," and that is the end of it. Not so with the gentle sex,—I say it in their praise; they cannot abide abruptness.
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  Windows Vista Beta 1 now available for download !

  by Simon in

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  formerly known as windows "longhorn".

  http://www.windowsvista.com/.

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  Valis

  Elsewhere gimme a call about the MS Virtual Machine.
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  Who's ready for some football?

  by Big Dog in

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  training camps opened here in the us and it won't be long before they will be playing the hall of fame game in canton (which is less than a half hour from where i live and i have tickets for) and the season will be going in full swing.. favorite teams, predictions, etc?

  any enthusiasts out there?

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  we have the new stuff at Texas Stadium
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  English oral presentation: what are jw's basic beliefs?

  by Evanescence in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my english teacher said that we are going to be doing oral presentations on anything we want.

  my english teacher religious as well and she knows that i am into religion and that i should do an oral presentation on a religion.. well i know a lot about jehovah's witnesses so i thought i might to an oral presentation on them!

  so to make things easier can you help me a bit and tell me their basic doctrines like the 144,000 and the jesus on the stake (and why they believe this would help as well).

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/94217/1.ashx

  Sime good stuff Alan put together too..
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  Who's ready for some football?

  by Big Dog in

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  training camps opened here in the us and it won't be long before they will be playing the hall of fame game in canton (which is less than a half hour from where i live and i have tickets for) and the season will be going in full swing.. favorite teams, predictions, etc?

  any enthusiasts out there?

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  Valis

  astroturf, which is basically fake grass over concrete...
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  Who's ready for some football?

  by Big Dog in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

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  training camps opened here in the us and it won't be long before they will be playing the hall of fame game in canton (which is less than a half hour from where i live and i have tickets for) and the season will be going in full swing.. favorite teams, predictions, etc?

  any enthusiasts out there?

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  Valis

  Yes...football that's it..