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NEWS FLASH!!! Noah's Ark Found!
by Jim_TX ini saw it on the enquirer at the grocery store today - so it's gotta be true!.
they found it in irag - it was hidden by saddam 20 feet below ground for many years.
now they have found it!.
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Troll dolls and Smurfs - oh my!
by Jim_TX inhow many here have in their possession troll dolls or smurf dolls?.
i am not sure about the rest of the world, but here in the states - these were considered 'demonistic' (oooohhhh!
), and were pretty much forbidden in the toyboxes of children.. since i have left, i have acquired a few for myself - one sits on the refrigerator - with a magnet - another on a shelf around here ... somewhere (he seems to walk around on his own *grin*).. sooooo... how about you?.
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Recommended Reading...
by Jim_TX inthe hiram key - by christopher knight & robert lomas.
isbn 0-7607-0967-x.
it tells of the search for the origins of the masonic lodge and the freemasons.. in the course of their search, they uncover some very interesting information - which they share in this book.. while initially, i was not interested in learning about the masonic lodge... i found that when & how it tied into religion - was very fascinating and made a lot of sense.. regards,.
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License Plates
by Jim_TX inok - another thread got me to thinking about this.... how many of yall memorize your license plate number by making up an acronym to remember it by?.
for example... my plates are... .
b52 kdp.
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Card in the mail...
by Jim_TX inthis past week was really crappy.
tuesday was a disaster... literally - with a water pipe bursting, and flooding quite a bit of my mobile home.
i am now sitting in my office, in a room with floors that resemble a roller coaster ride.
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Story: St. Patrick's Day
by Jim_TX init's coming up on st. patrick's day, and i always remember something that.
happened years ago on this day.. .
a long time ago, i was working in austin, and commuted back and forth from.
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Clearing the Laundromat of Propaganda
by Jim_TX inwell, today was 'wash day' at the laundromat.
it is also the time that i rid the laundromat of the propaganda that seems to collect there.. you know what i mean.
it seems to be a collection point for watchtower and awakes that jws seem to want to leave there.. today, i hit the jackpot!
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Halloween Costumes
by Jim_TX ini was at coffee yesterday, and friends i was with started talking about halloween, and costumes.. after a bit, i got this 'revelation'!!
i asked them.... "why not dress up as santa claus on halloween?".
well, you'd have thunk i said that satan wuz jesus!
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Joke: You know you are living in 2002 when...
by Jim_TX inyou know you work in the 21st century (and you'd better get a life) when.... 21. cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.. 20. your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have email addresses.
conversely, the only way you keep in touch with your family is by email.. 19. keeping up with sports entails adding espn's homepage to your bookmarks.. 18. you have a "to do list" that includes entries for lunch and bathroom breaks and they are the only ones that get crossed off.. 17. you have actually faxed your christmas list to your parents.. 16. pick up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.. 15. you consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow.. 14. you assume any question about whether to valet park or not is rhetorical.. 13. you refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.. 12. your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.. 11. your grocery list has been on your refrigerator so long some of the products don't even exist anymore (who else remembers tang?)..
10. you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process.. 9. you get all excited when it's saturday so you can wear sweats to work.. 8. you refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.. 7. you find you really need powerpoint to explain what you do for a living.. 6. you normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.. 5. you think that "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable english phrases.. 4. you know the people at the airport hotels better than your next door neighbors.. 3. you ask your friends to "think out of the box" when making friday night plans.. 2. you think einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into a matrix.. 1. you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock..
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Dallas Apostaparty
by Jim_TX inwell, i just got in from a long weekend spent in dallas, tx.. there wuz an 'apostafest' gathering held there - and it wuz a blast!.
i think an informal head count would put total attendance at around 35 - 40 folks there.
(no one was designated as 'attendant', so no official count was taken.).