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  Threats My Mother Made...

  by Frannie Banannie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother was a short (5'2") red-headed, blue-eyed irish woman.

  i was just sitting here thinking about some of the bizarre threats she used to make, either to us kids or to someone else that had her dander up.

  we always knew they were threats and would rofl or lmao most of the time when she made one.

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  Frannie Banannie

  this usually went along with the 'evil eye' that she was good at giving)

  LOL, Metaspy! My kids called mine "the look" cause all I had to do was look at 'em when they got older.
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  Home and Garden Tips for Spring

  by onlycurious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those who are interested, i have a monthly newsletter i have published.. this month i gathered articles on "tips for a cozier and more inviting home" and "5 quick gardening tips to save you money".

  feel free to forward this to a friend.. .

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  Frannie Banannie

  Is that really true about Epsom salt? Do you think that my rodedendruns (sp) would like a shot of that?

  I'll let you decide, BFD. Here's a couple of examples of the end results.

  1. When I was 12 yo, my Dad moved into a new house and when I was visiting him one weekend, I helped him plant a tree in the middle of his back yard, nearer to the back fence and equidistant from the sides of the yard. It was such a twig of a tree, I didn't recognize that it was a Chinese Tallow or China Berry tree, as we used to call 'em. When my Dad placed the earth back around the root sack, after he'd dug the hole and planted the tree, he then took a broomstick and poked holes all around the tree down through the soil at an angle towards the root sack. I asked him why he did that and he replied that he sprinkled Epsom salts down into those holes and then drizzled water on the epsom salts to cause it to be absorbed by the tree roots. 7 yrs later, on another visit to my father, I happened to glance into the backyard and was totally shocked to see a monstrous Chinese Tallow tree. It was the size of a great oak tree. The branches must have reached 20 to 30 feet up and the circumference reached from side fence to side fence (60 to 75 feet wide). The branches were so full of leaves and berries that some hung to the ground at the bottom, so the tree resembled (in shape) a weeping willow tree. The china berry trees in my Mom's backyard had been there all my life and were only 1/4 the size of my Dad's tree.

  2. I rented a house one time that had a nice-sized front porch. There was also a scraggly "rose bush" on the side of the front porch that had a few really long wild shoots and 3 dried up roses, which color was unrecognizable. After the last frost of winter, I pruned the branches on that rose bush, sealed the tips of the branches and generously sprinkled epsom salts around the base of it and watered it gently. Then I forgot about it. Next time I took notice of that bush, it was approx. 4 feet high and approx. 3 to 4 feet in diameter and totally FULL of white roses.

  Epson salts is magnesium which can be beneficial for vegetation but it does not contain potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen that all plants need. Peters and Miracle Grow contain Nitrogen, phosphate and potassium.

  BrentR, I know you must be right, chere. But either my plants and my Dad's Chinese tallow tree can't read or they don't care about the rest of that stuff....or the soil they were in contained that shtuff already.
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  Threats My Mother Made...

  by Frannie Banannie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother was a short (5'2") red-headed, blue-eyed irish woman.

  i was just sitting here thinking about some of the bizarre threats she used to make, either to us kids or to someone else that had her dander up.

  we always knew they were threats and would rofl or lmao most of the time when she made one.

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  Frannie Banannie

  I wonder which generation eased from one word to the next?

  Conf, I think it was the generation (mine, of course) that was growing up during the Kennedy administration. I was in D.C. when the "peace" and racial riots occurred 1967-1970. That generation was old enough to rebel against the racist "establishment." That generation did more than burn bras.

  Frannie
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  Home and Garden Tips for Spring

  by onlycurious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those who are interested, i have a monthly newsletter i have published.. this month i gathered articles on "tips for a cozier and more inviting home" and "5 quick gardening tips to save you money".

  feel free to forward this to a friend.. .

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  Frannie Banannie

  If you are interested you can always sign up to automatically receive the newsletter. I don't ask for #s and won't bug you. It's just my way of communicating with people that have expressed interest. It's a fun 'hobby'.

  OC, can I sign up on the website at the link you posted?

  Frannie
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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

  1. social
  2. family

  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  I think i must be ill - I literally glanced at the thread title and went wide eyed - I thought it asked "How much do you spend on orgies each month?" Whew!

  Don't feel badly, Crumpet. I saw the same thing and was avoiding this thread because I don't have the funds to spend on orgies!
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  Parents Jailed for Sadistic Abuse

  by Crumpet in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  parents jailed for sadistic abuse thursday february 8, 04:53 pm.

  a sadistic couple have been jailed for a total of 22 years for the abuse of their three-year-old disabled daughter.

  middlesex guildhall crown court heard they forced her to sleep naked in a locked toilet during a catalogue of "revolting cruelty".

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  Frannie Banannie

  This is one of those ocassions where you hope they get similar treatment in prison to that which they gave their daughter!

  Perhaps those miniscule prison terms will turn out to be life sentences, eh? I hope so.

  This reminds me of a story I heard from a sergeant on the P.D. in Maryland where I worked back in the early 70's. It happened near D.C. in the surrounding area. There's a lot of military personnel and their families up there. One day when I was riding with the sergeant, he told me about an incident where the wife of one soldier became angry with her 2 yo. It seems the tot had "fingerpainted" on the wall with its own feces. So the mother ran ONLY the hottest water in the bathtub and forced the child to stay in the hot water until the flesh was cooked off its bones.

  I was so horrified at the painful visualization, I choked when I tried to find something to say. I couldn't get words out. This makes me feel the same way.

  Frannie
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  My husbands observation...

  by megsmomma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we were just discussing the whole thing about how only those jw's that live through the big a will be able to still be sexual beings and pro-create.

  he said that the society is useing our most natural desires to scare everyone into staying in the org and hoping, above all else to live through the big "a".

  and i was saying to him that if i still believed what they taught, i would kill him and my baby to save them.

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  Megsmomma, so now the WTS is dangling the "future sex carrot" to keep people from leaving? BWAAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
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  Threats My Mother Made...

  by Frannie Banannie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother was a short (5'2") red-headed, blue-eyed irish woman.

  i was just sitting here thinking about some of the bizarre threats she used to make, either to us kids or to someone else that had her dander up.

  we always knew they were threats and would rofl or lmao most of the time when she made one.

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  Frannie Banannie

  Thanks for the "beezer" info, Confession. I thought so, but wasn't sure.

  I remember counting off when I was a kid, "Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a tiger by the toe. If he squeals let him go. Eeny meeny miny mo." But it wasn't tiger.

  Jgnat, I remember that one, too. I thought my parents were really stupid about shtuff like that. I think one time when I had just learned to read, my older sister almost had a hissy fit because I sat down in the back of the bus.
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  OK, my dealing-with-heckler skills need work! (stand up comedy)

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i went to the bar again tonight for my 4th appearance at the open mic comedy event.

  my last three sets went fine, got plenty of laughs, and i felt good about them.

  tonight i thought some folks from work were going to be there so i was using old material that had worked previously.

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  Frannie Banannie

  All-purpose lines would be good, but I'm afraid this gal (and others like her) feed on it. I saw it in her interactions with other comics, too. I'll work on shut-it-down lines,.......

  Dave, the lines I posted can also be broken down like this:

  Heckler: You're an asshole.

  Almost Atheist: That was on the list of qualifications for baptism as a Jehovah's Witness.......(laughter)

  Heckler: (heckling)

  Almost Atheist: ....right after "Leave your brain at the door." (laughter)

  Heckler: (heckling)

  Almost Atheist: I see you're baptised, as well. (laughter)

  This should shut 'er down. If not, get da gun, Dave.
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  Threats My Mother Made...

  by Frannie Banannie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother was a short (5'2") red-headed, blue-eyed irish woman.

  i was just sitting here thinking about some of the bizarre threats she used to make, either to us kids or to someone else that had her dander up.

  we always knew they were threats and would rofl or lmao most of the time when she made one.

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  Frannie Banannie

  Since escaping the Watchtower, one thing I've often said I appreciated about my upbringing as a JW was the absence of racial stereotyping. I know I've read threads here that demonstrate this was certainly not always the case. All I know is that I grew up with people of virtually every race other than my own: black, Hispanic, Middle-Eastern, etc, and my parents made sure to tell me "we're all the same." As I got older and started to hear racist comments, they made sure to condemn them.

  Anyway, this has diverted Frannie's thread WAYYY off course. Let's see; what else did Mom used to say? How 'bout this...

  "Why I oughtta bop you in the beezer." (She was just teasin' when she said this.)

  Yes, confession, I appreciated that about the WTS, too. What's a "beezer?"