Jeez!

Here it is May 2nd and someone dropped the ball on opening a new RA!

That makes me just want to

Can't resist the opportunity!

I'M NUMBER TWO!

I'M NUMBER TWO!

What does that make me?

Bronze?

I'm not sure, but we all know what number two is.

Is this the first post of yours in the past month that doesn't have the Bunny in it?

Not nice!

M-m-m-m-m-m Didn't know anyone was counting...

Well I think I got the last post over there!

Subject: FW: School Answering Machine

>This is hilarious - no wonder some people were offended!

This is the message that the Pacific Palisades High School
(California) staff voted unanimously to record on their school
telephone answering machine.

This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students
and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and
missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents
who want their children's failing grades changed to passing grades -
even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester
and did not complete enough schoolwork to pass their classes.

This is the actual answering machine message for the school:

"Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your
school. In order to assist you in
connecting to the right staff
member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:

To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1

To make excuses for why your child did not do his work- Press 2

To complain about what we do - Press 3

To swear at staff members - Press 4

To ask why you didn't get information that was already enclosed in
your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5

If you want us to raise your child - Press 6

If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7

To request another teacher, for the third time this year - Press 8

To complain about bus transportation - Press 9

To complain about school lunches - Press 0

If you realize this is the real world and your child must be
accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, class
work,
homework and that it's not the teachers' fault for your child's lack
of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!

If you can read this - thank a teacher!

If you are reading it in English - thank a veteran!



" Speech is a mirror to the soul.-Think a lot and talk very little."
>

Read the text below then open the web site, and have your sound on.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php

There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything
you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it. The film
took
606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't
work.

They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent
weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was over, they were ready
to change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took three
months to complete including full engineering of the sequence.

In addition, it's two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on
British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of
us in clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast becoming the most
downloaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda executives figure
the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free viewings" (Honda isn't
paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!). When the ad was
pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without
any hesitation - including the costs.

There are six and only six hand-made Accords in the world. To the horror
of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the
film.

Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and
complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars. The voice-over is
Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked
it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten.

They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.

Oh. and about those funky windshield wipers. On the new Accords, the
windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing
their thing automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit
weird in the commercial. Make sure your sound is on.

Congratulations bigtom!!!! FOR THE LAST RA POST...APRIL 2006 EDITION before we put it to bed!!!!

A new tradition, a new milestone! I don't recall us congratulating the last poster of the month, but I think I like it...

Thanks for missing my middle of the night mutterings folks..I confess, I was here last night..put my fingers to the keyboard and then yep, a moment in history folks..my fingers, hands and arms simply frozen..gasp..worse then losing the ability to speak. I was just too darned tired.

Not to worry, I am baacckk....Took the dog for a long walk in the woods. Kind of heals what ails don'tcha think? ws - I make up my grammer as I go!

So instead of all the weighty topics... (is weighty a word?) Maybe I make up words too, ws!

Sorry off track again...

Instead of all the issues, thingys and global, national, state and local concerns that are troubling me..I come home from my walk with this question.....


Why do Doxies claws (nails) whatever, grow so long so fast???? Took out the clippers, which is a major ordeal with Bentley (my own lovely doxie as some of you know). As soon as he sees the expletive deleted things..the dance begins...the power, the race, the energy, the drama!!!!! We are done again..but I swear his nails grow at double of the rate of all my body hair and nails combined.
I should be so lucky to have nails like my dog.

My question is..is it because of their breed? I have had a variety of dogs in my lifetime..never have I had to do so much clipping. What, you want me to look it up on the internet myself??? I'm being lazy today. Inquiring minds want to know!

Now I'm going to ponder roll call. Probably should wait, but what the heck..

btw - Des - Checking in with "I'm still kicking" is NOT an acceptable response.

Will return..as always..

skillet

Gunny warned me when he was leavin' that the CGCS forum still really mainly catered to the emotional voices on the far left, leavin' centrists like ourselves out in the cold and too often embittered by what we see. I wasn't smart enough to listen to him then, but methinks now I see what he meant.

I'm gonna be gone for at least a while so if y'all still wanna see them pups first thing in the mornin' someone else'll have to take care of it.

I don't know why but I still don't get e-mails notifyin' me of PMs, so that ain't gonna get my attention. Methinks a couple here got my e-mail, and I've the e-mail forwardin' function on my profile active if you really need to get a hold of me. Unless 'tis really important please give me a couple days though 'cause I really gotta cool down first, eh?

Y'all take care, I'm gonna miss you!

... and your spelling, too...


In all truthiness, I believe it is!


My guess is that they don't, but if they did, it would be because their job was to dig for badgers (dachs) so they had to grow their nails quickly. Just a reasoned guess... don't know how well reasoned...


Has the snow melted from your... ah, um... backyard?

Hells Bells - Again!

Hello Doc, Fly....(will not say your name..) DON'T YOU DARE!!!!

I am scrambling here...WTF???

Someone please report in...if you don't want to post email me..I will really go into a panic attack if this happens..and I'm not kidding...

We'll miss you while you're gone, hope you cool down quickly.

Philosophical question, if we were smart enough to listen would we still be centrists? There aren't any centrist talking points, rallies or sound bites and those are what seem to drive the politica debate now.

GWS opens May, eh ?
And the guys have a field day... until The Snuff shows up with a very kewl video...
and Skillet has my laughter turning to hysterics with the line:
"yep, a moment in history folks..my fingers, hands and arms simply frozen..gasp..worse then losing the ability to speak" Anyone knowing skillet, knows why that is so funny.

So all the merriment and good start to the month here, and then what is all this about?
"I'm gonna miss you!"

And this ? "Des - Checking in with "I'm still kicking" is NOT an acceptable response."
(I agree, not acceptable.)


on edit: thank you, Tomhye- good point !

And we, you. Have learned that it pays to be very, very careful where one steps. There's a thread up right now that I haven't dared to open, as I'm an OKC native and sensitive to things Murrah-related. Not sure how long I can hold off, though, so maybe I should heed my own advice.

Marie, how have things progressed with your former Marine? And the shopping-challenged one?

Fly, I don't have the words to say what I want to say. To me, you are the soul of RA. I don't mean to offend anyone else but thats the way it is for me.

I do understand the need to escape at times either because of the exasperation level having been reached or because the ability to suffer fools is at low ebb but I do hope your sabbatical is just that, and of short duration.

In any case know that you take my best wishes and my gratitude with you. You have been my rock in recent months and I shall be eternally grateful.

I shall miss you more than you know my friend.

Betty

No, that's true, and I think we all know it.

Everyone has to do some down time every now and then. Doc will be back: I know this because I have never, ever seen a Navy Chief Petty Officer give up on anything they have started.

Come on back, Senior Doc, when you are ready...

joe e , out

Geez Doc, you're one of the best people here! WTF happened? This is truly one of the most painful thing I've seen. I feel like I'm losing a brother...

It's just temporary, Winston. He'll be back. He'd never abandon people who love him.

I took a time out and it helped!
But METHINKS I'm gonna miss the hell out of your presence. I have been finally venturing into some of the threads but RA saved my brain. Come back here FIRST.

bigtom - you may never, ever realize the impact of this statement. One by one, some of us came to "RA Original" and regained hope, found friendship, restored humor and really got to appreciate the differences of others. RA has been through several evolutions. We were moved around, shoved around.some were banned, some went silent in protest of the ban..but always..with Doc, Semperfi, Joe E and Marine in charge we regrouped, and continued on.

I, myself (don't correct me ws) after the news of a couple of hours ago..went and hit my bed...am not feeling none too good here. I realize Doc, like everyone else on this forum is a human being..and goodness knows I took my leave for long periods of time. But, really, I never thought my absence was all that important. I knew that the core of RA (the people) that is what counted, carried on day by day. even if I was not there..I wasn't that important. What was important was the spirit that I noticed on this thread..way back before most of you even realized what it was. What is/was/ will be important was the welcome, and come and chat, no matter who you are, how you can express yourself, and what you stand for when I inquired within.
Redbird can vouch for me here..cuz it was she and I and a very few others that interupted the flow of things (again in the original RA).

Thanks Joe E..for posting...you..for one..all the way to my water fairy avatar know me, and understand how I feel..btw - I will never, ever give up the avatar..because..if you research fairies..you will see how close it really is to me. But then again I know you know that.

Thank you Pegatha - I'll get my bearings back and understand your message..I have been much better with that these days, go figure?? and will update on Mr. Flowers and Mr. Shopping Challenged.

However, I must let you know..I stalk these forums in the dead of night, after all of you have gone to sleep. They ring hollow without you on your various threads, talking about your various topics. See it isn't that bad, because I know it is a temporary thing. You all wake up..and then I catch up. But knowing that Doc is MIA is almost too much to take. It was hard enough to accept with Gunny..I honestly don't think I ever accepted it, just tried to understand.

I'm gonna try to do some exploring...Pegatha, the thread you are referring to is going hit a sore spot. Jesus, Mary and Joseph...what the heck (yes dear mod's I said heck) when I want to spout off a stringful of expletive deleted's..which will get the post F***ing pulled...maybe I'll go visit the music thread. As somebody probably our favorite grouch in residence noted..it does bring one together..never as much as here.

Changing subjects here. It's time for a little funny to lighten the load...

joe e

Just my ...

I honestly believe the very best and most caring thing we can do is try to keep the homefires burning exactly as Fly would if he were here. And that is exactly what he would want us to do if I read that wayward Canuck right.. and I think I do.

He won't abandon ship .. he' s just on shore leave.

Thanks for the Popeye link, Joe. Made me want to eat some spinach, and I HATE spinach!

Okay..okay..okay..

I get the message...

I leave with warm and fuzzzzzzzzzzzy thoughts...

(One of you East-Coasters please let the Doc's puppies out in the morning.)

It made me think un-pure thoughts about Olive Oil...

It's better then someone writting "Des? Well, he stopped kicking a couple of days ago.".

Had four hours of sleep last night. Watched the movie "Anchorman" on HBO,crashed out and then was woken a little past 6 this morning by an old gent who wanted to tell me that his furnace wasn't working. Told him I'd be there in a couple of hours (sometime after 8) which I did.

Methinks this is the answer to our questions, or at least the final straw for our favorite old camel's back.

Shoot. No fun when two good people get into it.

Joe, I am up really early and will let the pups out as soon as I get a coffee and before I do anything else. .. ok ?

brb...ooops..not in chat am I??? oh well..lets see where I go next.

Just poking around, I see more needle pokes that probably built up in the past 24 hours, but I'm sure it's more than just those - some were in that same topic, some were in here, the rest...

Just my conjecture, I haven't written to Doc.

Yeah, I found another, similar situation on another thread, as well. I'm giving him until Thursday, then I'm writing him.

But what about the female terrorists? What do they get?

Exactly what they deserve.. no more .. no less.

Thanks, I am an ad freak and I forgot about the Honda stuff. It's great.

WOW....I leave for a couple days and I couldn't find the right thread.

Well, I haven't read everything yet, but I hope everyone is having a bright and wonderful day and if you're not then I'll keep you in my prayers....since I do that so much these days

Mr. Heart is packing up his stuff and the kids stuff and will leave the first week in June. I'm going to sit here and watch and try to maintain some semblence of normalcy and strength for the kids sake.

Luv to everyone,
heart

You just have to complicate things don't you?

Oh, I forgot to add....they have got to take my parrott too.....I simply don't think I can sit here and listen to all my families voices and habitual sayings come out of the birds mouth and not completely lose it. Thank god dogs and cats don't mimic your departing loved ones.

Heart - So good to hear from you...what do you need???? I have been thinking about you. Are you sure about the parrot?

Anybody else have a crisis in admist the rabble???? Post now, or concentrate on what we need to do to help each other out ok?

skillet

Went to an all one can eat Chinese buffet earlier today with the little woman and mid-teen and am suffering from gas now but I don't think that qualifies as a crisis as it's mild outside and I have the windows open.

No. I don't need anything. I'll stand duty while Doc is away. I'm strong and I can do it...but I can't let out the doggies in the morning because I am not up that early and even if I was I don't start thinking until about 10 am anyway.

We'll be here for you Doc, just like we have always been for everyone that needed a break. There won't be a day that goes by that we won't be thinking of you. You're my Valentine always.

This Peg, they get this



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How do like them tomatos!