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  News Reports that sound dirty, but aren't

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sub-heading from msnbc story on n. korean ship carrying missles:.

  growing tension with pyongyang .

  lead story on motley fool newsletter:.

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  meadow77

  I love this post. It had me really searching hard, and I found some really dumb quotes that are sooo hilarious. These don't really sound dirty, but they are funny all the same. Please share if you have some.

  1. We apologize for the error in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr Dogbody is a detective in the police farce.
     -- Correction Notice in the Ely Standard, a British newspaper
  2. Teeth extracted by the latest methodists.
     -- Hong Kong dental advertisement
  3. "Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound."
     - Advertisement
  4. "Cars will not have Intercourse on this Bridge."
     -Tokyo, Japan traffic sign
  5. "Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
     - Mariah Carey
  6. "I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
     - Britney Spears
  7. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of
     the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The
     researchers also discovered other similarities between the
     two, but can't remember what they are.
     --Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
  8. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I
     have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could
     converse with those people"
     -Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
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  News Reports that sound dirty, but aren't

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sub-heading from msnbc story on n. korean ship carrying missles:.

  growing tension with pyongyang .

  lead story on motley fool newsletter:.

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  meadow77

  Edited by - meadow77 on 16 December 2002 2:52:4
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  JW.com Book Club

  by Surreptitious in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i just finished re-reading "a brave new world".

  have you read it?

  if so, any thoughts?.

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  meadow77

  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn By Betty Smith
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  Suicide up during holidays?

  by meadow77 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  by denise mann .

  webmd medical news .

  reviewed by dr. tonja wynn hampton .

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  meadow77

  By Denise Mann
  WebMD Medical News

  Reviewed by Dr. Tonja Wynn Hampton

  Dec. 26, 2000 -- Contrary to previous media reports, suicide rates do not increase during the holiday season. In fact, November and December rank lowest in terms of daily suicide rates.

  A new study shows that the media actually perpetuates this myth. In fact, two out of three stories incorrectly link suicides to the holidays, according to an analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York.

  To arrive at their findings, researchers examined print stories on suicide that ran from Nov. 8, 1999 through Jan. 15, 2000 and found that only 13% of stories attempted to set straight the myth that suicides rate increase during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

  It turns out that April tends to have the highest suicide rates, according to Herbert Hendin, MD, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Exactly why suicide rates rise in April is unclear, but as American poet and playwright T.S. Eliot put it, April is the cruelest month.

  Perhaps, Hendin says, unreasonable expectations of springtime peak in April and people commit suicide when they realize they are not living up to their expectations.

  In the U.S., suicide is the eighth leading cause of death and the third leading cause of death among teenagers. In 1998, over 30,000 Americans took their own lives.

  "No question about it," Hendin tells WebMD, "the idea that suicide peaks during the holidays is a myth [and] we have been telling the media that for years."

  Still, each year Hendin gets calls about it. "The media have a fondness for this story. I think it probably arose from the fact that people without families or who have lost somebody are often sad around Christmas because of the absence of the person or persons," he says.

  "Suicide is a product of mental illness and 95% of people who commit suicide are mentally ill -- most commonly with depression," Hendin tells WebMD. "The type of depressed person that is at risk is often agitated, anxious and a substance abuser."

  However, depression is one of the most treatable mental illnesses.

  Glen Gabbard, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at Menninger in Topeka, Kan., agrees. The most important message, holidays or no holidays, is that suicidality is treatable, he tells WebMD. Most suicidal people have a treatable psychiatric disorder and treatment may mean antidepressants, abstinence from alcohol or other drugs and/or psychotherapy.

  "Studies of suicide have shown that isolation is one of the risk factors and the majority of us are not isolated during the holidays," Gabbard says. But he adds that feelings of hopelessness, another important predictor of suicide risk, should be taken very seriously.
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  Only the strong survive

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  only the strong survive .

  i know my mother isn't.

  and it has devastated the lives of my siblings to have left and still believe it is the truth.

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  I will survive, for as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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  News Reports that sound dirty, but aren't

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sub-heading from msnbc story on n. korean ship carrying missles:.

  growing tension with pyongyang .

  lead story on motley fool newsletter:.

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  Study Finds Sex, Pregnancy Link

  Would the fans along the outfield please remove their clothes.
  Tex Rikards, announcer at Ebbets Field, New York, after fans had used the top of the outfield fence for their coats.
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  News Reports that sound dirty, but aren't

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sub-heading from msnbc story on n. korean ship carrying missles:.

  growing tension with pyongyang .

  lead story on motley fool newsletter:.

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  meadow77

  ' Woman To Drop Suit For Sperm '
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  News Reports that sound dirty, but aren't

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sub-heading from msnbc story on n. korean ship carrying missles:.

  growing tension with pyongyang .

  lead story on motley fool newsletter:.

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  meadow77

  Edited by - meadow77 on 14 December 2002 3:45:27
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  Bethel pictures

  by meadow77 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  years ago when i dated a jw who was accepted to bethel, it was explained to me that applicants had to submit a picture.

  i never bothered to question this, or ask anybody at the time, but i've always wondered what the point of that was.

  does anybody know?

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  meadow77

  Thanx guys, I was starting to wonder if there was an answer to this. I suspected that it was based on some sort of outward appearance standards. I guess the other things like recognition make sense too, I have always wondered though what the official reason was. Thank you for your ideas, and comments.
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  What did you get called?

  by Fe2O3Girl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tr's expression 'hovah.

  which he picked up from a friend that used to call him that set me thinking about the things that i got called when i was a jw kid.

  one term of abuse was "jew" which is weird and creepy.

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  meadow77

  Well this is not one of my own, but my uncle always likes to tell my stepmom that she's in the witness protection program.