i posted this on the aol boards....maybe you'll get a chuckle from these.... .
please do not be drinking or eating at your computer while reading these.. .
splatter against the screen is a pain to clean up.. .
1926 "Tonsillectomy is called a minor operation. If so, getting well is a double major. If any overzealous doctor condemns your tonsils go and commit suicide with a case-knife. It's cheaper and less painful." {GA Apr 7 1926 438}
LMAO, thank Je-hover I wasn't born in 1926. My religion would have encouraged the termination of my life with a case-knife. LMAO!
not being familiar with this tradition at all, i've always found it fascinating (and on my to do list if i ever win the "big one" .
nb we merge the family get together and meal with the present giving at christmas time.
we also usually tend to have more than one christmas dinner - one, the hot one at lunch time with one set of relatives, then the other, cold christmas dinner leftovers in the evening with anohter set of relatives.
Sphere - I am in full agreement with you. I totally dig Halloween, 4th of July, gobble gobble day is ok too...but I don't know about X-mas. The radio stations overplay X-mas music, the pressure to buy gifts, the commercials on tv, santa....AAAACCCKKK!!!!! The lights are pretty tho....
i'm trying to find david hunter.
we were in the same congregation in belvidere, il.
i ran away from home when he was in bethel.
It's a small, incestious place, northern IL, so we can hope!
LOL @ 6of9
I grew up in Barrington, Illinois...da burbs of Chicago....knew people in the Carol Stream, Barrington, Elgin, and Algonquin Congreagtions....
remember those people?
my mom would tell me to not even look at them.
they had bullhorns, banners, waving at us as we walked in.
It would be pretty fun to do that at an assembly, and know all of them think you're possessed by satan.
uuuugh, i feel like i have one foot in the grave right now.
i am soooo miserably sick it is unbelievable.
i really thought i was going to die yesterday, i had this horrible raspy cough and a super high fever, you know the kind that makes you feel as if you're moving under water?
Sorry to hear you're sick gurlie-o. That same ol' nasty virus is buggen' everyone out here in Denver too....
some comments here, suggest regret---that you were afraid of these simple men.
have you ever told an elder off?
what was the result?
Yes and it was GREAT! He called my house and I hung up on him. I told him everything I needed to say was in my letter to the society *click*!
funny article on msn...
"what's your sign?".
the epitome of cheese, this line, which has been around since the beatles came to america, ranks as the very worst line in dating history.
Hey baby, let's play house, you can be the door and I'll slam you!
LMAO! yeah there's another one that would have me melting!
funny article on msn...
"what's your sign?".
the epitome of cheese, this line, which has been around since the beatles came to america, ranks as the very worst line in dating history.
Can I lick your eyeball
Now what girl would pass up on an opportunity like that?
funny article on msn...
"what's your sign?".
the epitome of cheese, this line, which has been around since the beatles came to america, ranks as the very worst line in dating history.
Those clothes look fabulous on you -- but would look even better on my bedroom floor
d-oh! hehe
funny article on msn...
"what's your sign?".
the epitome of cheese, this line, which has been around since the beatles came to america, ranks as the very worst line in dating history.
How bout, "hey, what's that in your eye? ohhhh a sparkle..."
