You Take The Good, You Take The Bad,
[ . . . you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life! And WHY, pray tell, are the lyrics for the 1980s comedy The Facts of Life going through my head right now? I guess sharing these favorite posts and quotes from the second half of March just needs a soundtrack. Or I do, after this weekend batching it with the young! In any event, enjoy something here I posted just for you. -- David]
1. I just tried to put a toothpaste cap on a bottle of hairspray. #ReadyForTheWeekend
2. If ever you find a python in the house make sure that it doesn't see you and you should slowly get a flashlight and switch it on and shine the flashlight right in the eyes of the python by doing this it causes the python to be temporarily blinded until the professionals of the python comes to get it
3. I'm offended by bowling. The black ball gets to knock down white pins with red necks. Blatant racism.
4. When I was like 12 I lost to a girl in a free throw contest. Still would rather lose to her than this dude that shoots them like my granny
5. What you are doing now, and how you are doing now, will determine how God can use you later. No think on that a minute.
6. The thimble and the shoe [and the wheelbarrow, all announced March 17th as being replaced by an online poll with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a rudder ducky, and a penguin] were my two favorites. T Rex. What the hell does a T Rex have to do with Monopoly? Those little pieces were symbolic of things actually having to do with the entire point of the game...doesn't anybody understand that?
Land of short attention spans.
7. Until very recently it was widely believed among sailors that one could buy a favorable wind. Certain old women sold winds for sixpence in the Orkneys and the Hebrides as late as 1903.
(Bergen Evans, Dictionary of Mythology, appended to the entry "Aeolus")
8. Q are infinite. Why spend your time celebrating what you know to be eternal? (It gets better reading it in his voice, and knowing he would say it in a snarky tone)
[Poster wrote this on March 20, actor John de Lancie's birthday.]
9. On Wednesday, March 29, British Prime Minister THERESA MAY will invoke Article 50 in a letter to the European Union, and begin the process of withdrawal from the EU which is expected to take two years, apparently. She is expected to write that, while we don't wish to be a part of your EU as such, we would still like to have all the benefits of the trade deals and other issues that the EU supported us on. UK citizens are going to have to dust off their passports, and many countries are hardly likely to see Britain's desire to leave as an indication of a wish for a closer trade relationship. They would be well within their rights, and with good reason, to tell Britain to clear off; which, I am sure they will not do since their governments are much more polite and diplomatic than I am:
10. The rest of God is spiritual warfare. You rest, and He does your fighting.
(heard from Joyce Meyer, 032017, 1230 hrs)
11. Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world. . . . Most of us will not experience a Cinderella style abusive upbringing. We will not be a pawn for a scheming villain like Jafar, Ursula, or Scar. But we will all meet a Gaston. Every one of us will, at some point, meet a person whose nasty, bullying behavior is excused by the people around them, because they're rich, or handsome, or good at sports, or their parents are important. And that is why Gaston is a terrifying Disney villain. Because there's at least one version of him in every life.
(Part of a post shared on the Facebook page Plank's Mom, read by me 032117)
12. Those films [Disney's animated Beauty and The Beast and the similarly plotted and newly released live-action film] misrepresent big hairy angry bastards who own a lot of books and yell at furniture. Trust me, the ladies do NOT dig that sort of thing, IRL.
13. Bittersweet morning: After almost 16 years, today is my last day of employment at Verizon Wireless. I have another job lined up, but for the first time in a while the future is largely unknown. As a great man once said, “May fortune favor the foolish!”
14. I wonder how many internet arguments are caused by typos, and people not noticing, or failing to edit in time.
15. "You look as radiant as always, Marchesa." Secondari never knew what to say to the Prophet's doxies. So, he flattered them. The approach always seemed to work.
(Bruce Sterling, Pirate Utopia, p. 131)
16. Exciting news! I've been selected from the national department of grants and I've been selected to receive 14,532 in free grants.
Sure I have. RIIIIIIGGGGHHHHT.
I was born, but not yesterday!
17. "Why is it that people judge you by what you wear? They judge you because you are the one who chooses what you will wear. Because it is your choice, you are choosing how you want others to see you." Rebbetzin Heller
18. Laws of the Tokugawa made provision for feuds, but required registering the vendetta with the government and asking permission to carry it out.
(Gary Gordon, The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, p. 62)
19. I have lost friendships over the years and at the time wondered why, only years later to realize that these friends and I grew better separately.
(Katie Escalante, 032917, Christ In Our Home)
20. I'm in Weirsdale FL and it looks exactly like Hahira GA . . . WHOA feel like I just fell into a time warp!!!
21. I always get questions from parents and athletes asking about the recruiting process and what they should be doing. The simple answer is MAKE THE RECRUITING PROCESS A PRIORITY. Until you do that, nothing else matters. There is nothing unique about a family being "busy" or "having a lot going on"...that's what you signed up for when you decided to have a family.
If you're an athlete...studying, getting tutoring, having good grades, practicing, doing extra workouts, etc. a...re not MORE important than working the recruiting process...they are EQUALLY important.
26. Gives [this Poster] comfort while being a taxi driving Reverend:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
27. The whole Emergant church movement is a flagrant attack on the Bible-- The leaders say “We need to change the way we do church and become relevant to society” Well I am of the opinion that we need nothing but the Bible--Pure expository preaching in its fullness--We don't need skits , Space yard junk , tv screens loud music Rock bands etal-- Just the age old preaching of the gospel in its fullness will do the job just fine--- The Bible is Jesus Christ in print it is 100 percen...t divine as Christ Jesus our Lord is divine-- You don't need these extras--You don't need some hypnotic show on a tv screen --Get rid of all the space yard Junk-- Paul and the disciples never needed those crutches yet they turned the known world upside down and lives were miraculously changed-- Technological nonesense has become the replacenment for the Bible alone-- Just preach the word and let the Holy Ghost inspire it and you need nothing else--- Get rid of all the idolitrous technological garbage -- Preach the Bible alone! Gods word will not return void!
If you're an athlete...studying, getting tutoring, having good grades, practicing, doing extra workouts, etc. a...re not MORE important than working the recruiting process...they are EQUALLY important.
Parents reach out to me all the time wanting to get together and discuss recruiting or send me video to take a look at an athlete. But, when the time comes they are "super busy" or "things are crazy". Yea, that's life as a family! These are the same families that feel their kid was slighted, or their coach didn't do enough for them.
However you decide to approach the recruiting process you MUST make it a priority, no one that makes it a priority is too busy to do something about it.
There will be thousands of really good senior athletes with 4.0 GPAs around the country not getting an opportunity to continue their sport in college because their recruiting wasn't a priority...or they waited to long to make it one.
Athletes aren't entitled to being recruited, and they aren't going to be "found". Being recruited takes as much work and focus as it does to be a great student and to become a great athlete.
22. [Poster's daughter's] text message alert is Loki screaming "TELL ME!" & I may have just had a heart attack. I know you're proud . . . but this fangirl obsession may very well kill me.
23. I ran outta ranch dressing. And discovered Hardee's horseradish sauce and Arby's sauce packets in a nearby cubicle, which when mixed together is mighty tasty on celery sticks. Who knew
24. Feeling rather sad. We were so close, so connected. Now I feel undone and incomplete.
Sleep, why have you left me? We had a good thing going on, why did it end?
I'm confused, have no energy for life without you, can't seem to muster my strength.
Please come back, I need you in my life! I'm just not the same without you and I'm not ashamed to beg.
25. I read once that depression is an evolutionary adaptation that increases your survival rate in times of great stress by allowing you to focus on on the essentials, namely sleeping and eating. Don't think of depression as a failure, its not.
However you decide to approach the recruiting process you MUST make it a priority, no one that makes it a priority is too busy to do something about it.
There will be thousands of really good senior athletes with 4.0 GPAs around the country not getting an opportunity to continue their sport in college because their recruiting wasn't a priority...or they waited to long to make it one.
Athletes aren't entitled to being recruited, and they aren't going to be "found". Being recruited takes as much work and focus as it does to be a great student and to become a great athlete.
22. [Poster's daughter's] text message alert is Loki screaming "TELL ME!" & I may have just had a heart attack. I know you're proud . . . but this fangirl obsession may very well kill me.
23. I ran outta ranch dressing. And discovered Hardee's horseradish sauce and Arby's sauce packets in a nearby cubicle, which when mixed together is mighty tasty on celery sticks. Who knew
24. Feeling rather sad. We were so close, so connected. Now I feel undone and incomplete.
Sleep, why have you left me? We had a good thing going on, why did it end?
I'm confused, have no energy for life without you, can't seem to muster my strength.
Please come back, I need you in my life! I'm just not the same without you and I'm not ashamed to beg.
25. I read once that depression is an evolutionary adaptation that increases your survival rate in times of great stress by allowing you to focus on on the essentials, namely sleeping and eating. Don't think of depression as a failure, its not.
26. Gives [this Poster] comfort while being a taxi driving Reverend:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
27. The whole Emergant church movement is a flagrant attack on the Bible-- The leaders say “We need to change the way we do church and become relevant to society” Well I am of the opinion that we need nothing but the Bible--Pure expository preaching in its fullness--We don't need skits , Space yard junk , tv screens loud music Rock bands etal-- Just the age old preaching of the gospel in its fullness will do the job just fine--- The Bible is Jesus Christ in print it is 100 percen...t divine as Christ Jesus our Lord is divine-- You don't need these extras--You don't need some hypnotic show on a tv screen --Get rid of all the space yard Junk-- Paul and the disciples never needed those crutches yet they turned the known world upside down and lives were miraculously changed-- Technological nonesense has become the replacenment for the Bible alone-- Just preach the word and let the Holy Ghost inspire it and you need nothing else--- Get rid of all the idolitrous technological garbage -- Preach the Bible alone! Gods word will not return void!
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