Dang! Ellié, and here I was about to wax lyrical about my poetry in motion(s)......

Hey Mary, I've just bought some lyrical wax, it sings a good tune.
Does anyone notice that every day several new members appear on the site. I have a suspicion someone is getting a little 'multi-personality syndromish' unless they tell me different. Just an observation, probably unfounded. I More...

Hey Ellié, lyrical wax is a fantastic resource...cheap too.....

Anybody out there?
OK...Obama has been in office for tenish months. He's already won the Nobel Peace Prize...what can/should he do next?

He went to his first college football game recently. It has been suggested because of that, he should now receive the Heisman Trophy. The guy's verneer is beginning to wear thin in some places.

Rosemary, do you ever take a peek into your forum page to see what is going on?

ellié, I think the memberships are real, since they're free. I do think that the 'craze' part of Sudoku may be past. I first started doing these Sudoku puzzles in July of 05, found this site in August, and probably posted a few times that autumn. I still do them, of course, but not with More...

Jeb, I'll bet Rosemary quietly glides by every now and then. She does still post on Easy a couple of times a year.

As for our President, I think he is making a classic mistake of genuinely believing that it's a good thing he's in charge now, because all those things that all the dumb More...

I think that if he actually EARNS the Nobel Peace Prize he'll be doing ok.

That is certain, Mary. But it's a big 'if.'

Ian, I wasn't going to answer, with courteous regard to your comment, but some of the names; Shipman Jr and I think there was a name of a girl that had gone missing too if I recall, that leaves a lot to be desired in my book. I joined the site to do a bit of research for a private paper I am More...

Who was it that said "Educated beyond his intelligence"?

Hey Jeb, I was intrigued enough to google. It was James Brander Matthews who was describing a highbrow. Lovely phrase...I shall use it with aplomb.

'When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains...' - I quite like that quote too. Morning Mary, jeb...

Outstanding, Mary! Someone who recognizes a rhetorical question and shows how to put it to use. Bravo zulu.

And thank you André for providing the other bookend.

jeb, you are more than welcome. It needs a bit of a scrub, but it has been well used...until I bought it secondhand...it has a lovely feel though. Old oak, fashioned from an acorn.

I bought a book recently; 5001 Books to Read Before You Die, or something like that. What book/s have influenced you in your past and/or continues to influence you in your present life? It could be many or few or none? It would be nice if people felt they could join in with the discussions here...

I have a small brain, containing only one cell, but I have a lovely set of microfiche...I read that somewhere too. It tickled me at the time.

Are you speaking for Fred, André?

I have not read a book in ages since the pleasure of reading was deminished by a change in vision some years back. What I had read with the exception of text assignments would have had no influence anyway. Two that I read over more than once were More...

"Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains..."

Jeb: I'm pretty sure that the Hesse book is still in print and readily available. His stuff generates too many doctoral theses for any of it to go out of print.

Gann's "Fiddler's Green" appeals to me a great deal, treeific story.

And I don't know where this came from:

"The more he learns, the more ignorant he gets."

Probably jeb. (But don't let Fred know...or I will be at his beck and call all day).

Ian, I find the older I get the less I know about everything or anything...but that is the beauty of life, discovering something new every day, even if I don't understand it...

Hey Jeb, I love getting my teeth into a good rhetorical question.
André, I have loved and reread Changing by Liv Ullman many times in my long-departed youth. It was a great friend to have when one was going through the trials and tribulations of that period. I must read it again to see if it is as comforting in the T and T of 'mature-age'.

I'm a terrible collector of books. I keep all I have and I like to re-read some of the old classics time and time again. I can't even put my finger on one particular book as each has merit. I do have a well-thumbed book called The History of Languages. A mamoth epic which I pick and read again and More...

*mammoth - oops.
Mary how do you get your teeth out of a rhetorical question? Are you skilled in this art?
Love poetry too, I'm collecting old editions that I find in the local charity shops, there are some great finds to be had, and they are cheap too.

61,715 "views" of this page alleged.

Amazing. In the last 24 hours (according to the site stats), over 100 people have "viewed" this page.

And not a single one has seen fit to post a comment.

Perhaps the companies who advertise on this site would be interested in that little observation...

And four more in the last 30 seconds. My goodness, it's nice to be the center of worldwide attention...

Some of us just like to read.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Heidi....true words.
André,you prise them out with a pitchfork...it's a lost art.

A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.
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Well, there's a very simple answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil.
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We just didn't know we were getting low.
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The reason for that is purely geographical. More...

At the Brush Country Republican Women's meeting.
The topic was Texas concealed carry law. One of the speakers related the following story:


On the way to the previous monthly meeting an elderly lady was stopped by a highway patrolman. He asked for her driver’s license and More...

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of achieving, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or even to sustain themselves, are abundantly rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Why the U.S. was downgraded:
• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
• Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
• New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
• Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeroes and pretend it's a household budget:
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QUESTION..........

You, who worry about Democrats versus Republicans- -relax, here is our real

problem.



In a Purdue University classroom, they were discussing the

qualifications to be President of the United States . It was pretty simple.

The More...

Perspective: Losing our Sense of it . . .

By Mary Beth Hicks
Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, "Who parented these people?

"As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political More...

Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It's a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.

A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to More...

WHAT A HOOT!!!!

ABOUT THE WRITER: Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor
columnist for the Miami Herald.

COLONOSCOPY JOURNAL:

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an
appointment for a colonoscopy.

A few days later, in his office, More...

This is pretty much the MoviPrep
experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the
commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the
bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you
figure you must be totally More...