Here and Now...What's Happening?

[WhiteFeather]

I Still enjoy smoking cigs. Sorry....... I Quit many times prior. Eventually ill quit again. For a lil while or until i gain a few lbs.

[thunder24]

oooh, not to bad, I needed the bath...

Posted by Wookie (here)
Does a wet Patronus smell as bad as a wet Wookie? Sending my best intentions to you so the silver lining of your clouds may shine threw.

[meeradas]

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[Marianne]

Look up or you'll miss it...

[astrid]

........

[ulli]

Posted by meeradas (here)
[nothing to be found here anymore]

What do you mean?
Nothing?
How about this then?


Once again The Washington Post has published the winning submissions
to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply
alternative meanings for common words.



The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.


2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.


3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.


4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.


5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.


6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
answer the door in your nightgown.


7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.


8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.


9. Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.


10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.


11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.


12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.


13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.


14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.


15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief
that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck
there.


16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.



The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supply a new definition.


The winners are:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.


2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose
of getting laid.


3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.


4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.


5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.


6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.


7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.


8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)


9. Karmageddon (n): It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's
like, a serious bummer.


10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.


11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.


12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.


13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.


14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in
the fruit you're eating.


And the pick of the literature:

16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

[ulli]

For the Village Green:

[donk]

[ Re: Here and Now...What's Happening?
I Still enjoy smoking cigs. Sorry....... I Quit many times prior. Eventually ill quit again. For a lil while or until i gain a few lbs.
Parent Post

No need to apologize...& if you like smoking, honestly enjoy it, then you are not a slave.

I would never even contemplate quitting when I used to love it. The period after I stopped liking it, before I stopped doing it, was when I was slave. I like to think I was not in denial, that I got something out of it up til a certain point.

Who knows? I just know I got to point where I didn't like it, but needed it. Horrible feeling. Slavery.

[Lisab]

Posted by Flash (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by Flash (here)
What is going on Carmody. Scrubbing floors, then cleaning the whole house. Now you will have to clean every item in this panic room lol .

Are you moving out? Or cleaning up the chemtrails remnants?

Just a bit of humour.

Found this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCXx2bNk6UA

Yes, I was having some dry humour towards you. I do know what it is to get in a room and panic though.

I truly enjoyed this dolphin video. My daughter and I are fond of dolphins because whe had special memories and encounters. Two small spotted dolphins worked with her 3 years in a row. They chose who they work with, one cannot force them. Both dolphins wanted to work with my daugher and were competing for her.

Daphne was chosen over by the staff on the first summer. My daughter got very attached to her. As she says, Daphne was my first friend. And it really was.

On the second year, Daphne chosed her to work with, and when we were there, the veterinarian tought Daphne was sick and would not let her work. Daphne had been with my daughter in the morning and was fine, then in the afternoon was getting sick..

I was looking at her and could see in her eyes that in fact she was depressed. Stopping her work with a child she had chosen would only make her get worst. I told the staff what I saw and told them to let her work with my daughter, that my daughter would be beneficial to the dolphin and vice versa. So we made an experiment, we changed the working hours, my daughter being with her in the afternoon. The whole thing reversed, Daphne was sick in the morning, alright in the afternoon.

Therefore, it was decided Daphne would keep working with my girl. They got very attached to each other. Dolphin are as intelligent as we are, like having fun, although spotted dolphins are much more shy than the others species, and they reason and analyse as we do plus they do have emotions, we can read it in their being.

The first time the dolphin ended up on my lap I really felt like encounter of the third kind, with another intelligent and emotional specie.

It was a shock, I looked at the speech therapist and she nodded, understanding what I felt and acknowledging, yes this is it.

The dolphin hesitated to come to me at first, she had worked all 2 weeks with my daughter, and I was beside her in the water. When I realised that the dolphin was examining me but not coming, the dolphin analysing the situation, I made gestures she should not have understood (not trained for them) but she did. I pointed my daugher, then me, a few times, and all of a sudden, the dolphin understood and came straight to me, the mom of the kid she worked with. Her eyers were full of intelligence and emotion.

Before we went back on the third year, right before christmas, my daughter woke up crying. She had dreamed that we were back in the center and Daphne was not there anylonger, she had died. I wrote to the center and inquired about Daphne's health. Everything was fine. But when we went back in July, we learned that Daphne had died late March that year, after my daughter's dream. They were both, my daughter and Daphne, connected. My daughter had lost her first real friend ever. Her first mourning. My daughter had many dreams with Daphne afterwards. Daphne would speak to her.

The last year, my daughter worked with Kiwi, the other spotted dolphin.

Both dophin had been rescued on the beach as infant, having been beached both mother and child. This is how they ended up in an aquarium and were trained to work with special needs children. Well treated dolphins do like this work. The problem is to make sure they do not overwork, which is not obvious with some aquarium owners.

We also worked a tiny little with the huge dolphins. My daughter had a painting done for her Specially by a dolphin. We have the video of it being painted with my daughter holding the cannevas. Will put a picture of the drawing up tomorrow, right now I have to go to work.

Have a good day everyone.

If anyone ever want to inquire about these therapies, where the speech therapist works with dysphasics and autism and down syndrome, her name is Dr Janet Flowers, in Panama City, Florida. She is now with the Panama City aquarium. Previously she was in Fort Walton Beach but changed aquarium two years after Daphne's unnatural death (it took time to train the new dolphins). Daphne had been overdosed with antibiotic for months from an uncaring care worker. I told my daughter few years ago when she was old enough to take it. For her, her friend had been killed by negligence and she knows whom did it. She did not take it well, but I thought she should know. The other workers were extremely pissed and good people.

I absolutely loved this story. Thank you Flash (and Carmody). I refused to go to Seaworld whilst in Florida. Couldn't endorse that slavery. At first my little boy was upset so I had to explain it to him. How would you feel if mummy kept you in a bathroom everyday of your life. You were fed and loved but could never leave. To top it all I'd teach you tricks and people would come and watch and clap. But you could never leave. He got really upset and I felt so bad showing him a little of how cruel the world can be. But I also explained that I truly believed this would end one day in the not too distant future.

But dolphins that help autistic and disabled children I agree. The dolphins love and choose the experience. My friends son has autism but has come on leaps and bounds since being introduced to dolphin therapy.

[Lisab]

Marianne guess what? I now have a juicer! And I'm obsessed with it! Can't stop! The celery and apple is one of faves, so thanks for that. I also love the ABC juice..apple, beetroot and carrots. Delicious.

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by meeradas (here)
[nothing to be found here anymore]

What do you mean?
Nothing?
How about this then?


Once again The Washington Post has published the winning submissions
to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply
alternative meanings for common words.



The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.


2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.


3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.


4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.


5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.


6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
answer the door in your nightgown.


7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.


8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.


9. Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.


10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.


11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.


12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.


13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.


14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.


15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief
that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck
there.


16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.



The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supply a new definition.


The winners are:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.


2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose
of getting laid.


3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.


4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.


5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.


6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.


7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.


8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)


9. Karmageddon (n): It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's
like, a serious bummer.


10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.


11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.


12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.


13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.


14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in
the fruit you're eating.


And the pick of the literature:

16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

Thanks Ulli for much ado about nothing, or rather much ado about an 'untruism' or self-invalidating statement

[modwiz]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Okay Flash, modwiz gave me an image some pages back, probably 100 pages back by now, that I had kept to use as an avatar when the mood struck me. I knew it would eventually. Then my old computer crashed and I lost the image. But there are certain opportune times I can pull this out when there is undue criticism or negativity.

But, look! I found a suitable replacement...





Much Love,

Presto digio!

[Calz]

Works better with Santa in the image and her sister's giggle ...

... still ... worth the reminder

[Samsara]

This one is for Modwiz

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=apWKh3D9oVw

Happy Birthday !

[ulli]

Modwiz' birthday??? It is??? Another party, wow!!
I guess I'll have to pull my head out of my a...
Since it's the great Modwiz, I'll play along.
Just gimme a minute.

[Belle]

Happy Birthday, Modwiz!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WonIxImtetI

[Calz]

Does that mean I can call in sick to work???

[CdnSirian]

Indeed Modwiz have an especially wonderful day!

[eaglespirit]

Happy Birthday!
To My Friend and Confidant
...even if the date is skewed : )

[1inMany]

Oh, what have I done..

Gulp.

Where's that shell...