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Thanks for sharing Emma...nothing like the muppets to make you smile! Does anyone remember when Sesame Street used to have spoof songs like "Rebel L" (Rebel Yell) and "Stand By Your Can" by Tammy Swinette??? I found this link for Rebel L: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbpuK_H2VY

*LOL* That would have amused me all the way through the block!

Why are you holding back Dr. T??? Post already and have it done, or are you afraid of being #2?!?!?!

Please, PLEASE tell me that someone else watched Wife Swap last night. I am dying to talk to anyone else who saw it. This was the episode with the Christian "Big Mama" and the ex-mormon, now atheist Jinxi. I know it was a re-peat, so maybe mentioning that the atheist mom was covered in tattoos might jog your memory if you have watched the show in the past. Years ago I was way into watching TV but then quit watching it all together. I started watching some of the reality shows about 6 months ago and now I am hooked on this stuff. There are some very frightening people out there!

I love the Visiting Teaching program and being part of such a great sisterhood of service. For years I was inactive, but I did my visiting teaching every month...it was my life-line to the church. Maybe life-saving line would be a more appropriate term. Because of my living situation, I would not let my own visiting teachers or home teachers come to my house, but I had a couple of very special ones that always reminded me that they were always there looking out for me and thinking about me. What other place would a single woman have four (non-family member) people looking out for her?

Do they still have the tree that you can drive through? It had fallen down and went right over the road so they cut a piece out, kind of like a tunnel. I went there as a young child and that is what I remember the most.

I can think of at least five more verses of this song. I learned it at Brighton Girl's Camp years and years ago!

When we stayed in hotels, my mom would always take the little bars of soap and then put them in her drawers. When she died and we went through her drawers we found about 25 bars. Now that she is gone, I leave one bar in one drawer and when ever I am missing her, I can pull out something from that drawer and the scent brings back sweet memories. I guess being my mother's daughter, I always take the unused bars of soap, shampoo, and lotions from hotel stays too, but instead of tucking them in a drawer, I drop them off at crisis shelter or homeless shelter.

Hooked on a Feeling is a great song. Double Dutch Bus makes me smile until I laugh. (High School Memories) Anything by Bon Jovi or Def Leppard energizes me. My guilty pleasure: AC/DC Shook Me All Night Long (This song will pull me from the worst of bad moods!)

There was an article in the New Era by Jack R Christianson in 1984 called Music: Apples or Onions, here is the link: http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menu..._&hideNav=1 I don't recall liking the article very well as a high school aged teen, because my choice in music wasn't always the best for me, but when I went to find the link, I re-read it and realized how wise it really was.

I just ran across this news article on yahoo...it is kind of freaky! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070620/sc_nm/chile_lake_dc

It is wild, that is for sure, and as far as I am concerned, $75,000 for 8 weeks of work is not even CLOSE to enough for what they do!

Where are you mamacat?!?!?! Come back!

Did anyone else catch the first episode of this on the History channel?

Dr. T - Did you ever see the Saturday Night Live "I hate when that happens" spoofs? I've been around, reading more than writing due to time constraints.

Analogies & Metaphors Found In High School Essays * Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. * His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like socks in a dryer without Cling-Free. * He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. * She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. * She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. * Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. * He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. * The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. * From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00PM instead of 7:30. * Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. * The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. * Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. * John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. * He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River. * Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. * The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. * The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. * He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. * The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. * He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. * She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs. * It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

It doesn't matter Dr. T. You have a cat, remember? They have 9 lives! So even when your kids are bringing your grandkids to visit, you will STILL HAVE A CAT!!!! :-) That is why you don't leave a forwarding address when you move!!!! :-) Can I come? I'll bring the root beer! Can I come too Pammy? I'll bring chips, dip AND brownies!!!! :-)

Off the subject a little, but kind of related.... When my youngest nephew was baptized, he asked me to give the talk about the Holy Ghost. I live about 3 1/2 hours away from them and on my way to his baptism, I was listening to a mixed CD of some of my favorite music. I had two of my nieces with me and I was telling them that I had a talk planned, but I felt like I needed to change it a little bit. Right about that time one of my favorite rock n roll bands (Bon Jovi) started playing "Bed of Roses". There is a line in the song that says "I want to be just as close as, the Holy Ghost is...." and it played right as I was talking about the Holy Ghost. We all realized how funny the timing was and laughed and then I continued on with what I was going to say. That song ended and there was a slight pause and then the next song started playing....it was another Bon Jovi song called "Lay your hands on me" at which point the three of us all died laughing. My niece said, "Maybe this is a sign that you should just play a little Bon Jovi music instead of giving your talk!"

I LOVE Rock and Roll, but I just don't see it ever being appropriate in church. I would however LOVE to see a little more GOSPEL (think Harlem Southern Baptist) music! Don't get me wrong, I am deeply moved and attached to our hymns, I guess I am just also attracted to that "full spirit" sound.

Maybe you should have thought about your children BEFORE you kissed another woman! I don't mean to come off so harsh, but you were aware of how your wife felt before you did it, so why are you trying to use the kids as an excuse to not tell her now. Obviously you feel bad about it and it sounds like you truly want to make things right, but you have to remember that while you use your own free agency to do wrong, you don't get to choose the consequence, but you still have to live with it. If you are truly as concerned with how this will affect your relationship with your wife (and children) as you would have us believe, then you will do what ever it takes to make it right. Best wishes to you in your endeavor to fix this.

It sounds like you are trivializing this, or were you actually asking, "A kiss, is that all there was to it?". I am hoping it was the latter, because saying "A kiss - thats all?" as if it were nothing would be like responding "$1.00 - thats all?" when someone says they have stolen money. Kissing another woman as a married man would be in theory like "stealing" that kiss from your wife!

We had seminary during our regular school schedule, which is good because I was not happy about having to give up an 4 electives during high school, but I would have been way worse if I had to give up sleep! We always called it Cemetary instead of seminary.

Please keep 'em coming! I have been stealing a couple of yours every time you post! I collect quotes too! :-)

It has been a long time since I heard a "new" blonde joke and that one was pretty funny!

That was a good one Marsha! Thanks for sharing!