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One more thing. While we're at it, who's Norm Smith? If those questions sound like they came from an American who's totally oblivious to most sports, it did.

Generally, after I finish posting over at Living Spiritually, I spend a few minutes checking out what's on the Orbit homepage before coming here.

To give you a little perspective, I'm from Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, home to the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team. So when I saw Tony K's AFL Central post Eagles win the flag, it naturally caught my eye.


Since I'm not big on sports, I normally wouldn't have given it a second thought except the second thought is what made me click on it. I wanted to know "what flag?"

I still don't know what flag we're talking about. I'm not sure who the Eagles are or what they play, but whatever they do, they're apparently very good at it. From what I read, there are handballs and banana kicks involved, but that doesn't help me too much.

And this Norm Smith guy. I can only figure those medals bear his name for a good reason.



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Have ya heard the one about ...........?

September 30th 2006 03:27
My Mom has been emailing jokes to me since she learned to email. They're always good enough to share or she wouldn't share them. So, I've decided that my Friday (maybe your Saturday) posts from now on will be dedicated to Mom's jokes.


The new supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain.
When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and witness the scent of fresh hay.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.

The veggie department features the smell of fresh buttered corn.
I don't buy toilet paper there any more.!!!

Japan Fish
The fish isn't funny, I just brought him along for company



Reading him his Miranda Rights, a female police officer arrested a manfor drunk driving. The female officer tells the man, "Sir, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you." The drunk replies, "Boobs."



An elderly couple, Margaret and Bert, were married for 52 years.

Bert always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots.

So, seeing some on sale one day, he buys them, wears them home, walks in proudly and asks his wife: “Notice anything different about me?”

Margaret looks him over. “Nope.”

Frustrated Bert storms off into the bathroom, undresses, and walks back into the room completely naked except for the boots.

Again, he asks, a little louder this time, “Notice anything different NOW??????”

Margaret looks up and says, “Bert , what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday, it'll be hanging down again tomorrow.”

Furious, Bert yells, “AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, MARGARET??????”
“Nope” she replies.

“IT'S HANGING DOWN BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!!!”

To which Margaret replies... “Shoulda bought a hat, Bert. Shoulda bought a damn hat!!!!!”
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Use Your Virus Scan to Meditate

September 29th 2006 03:20
Even if you don't do it, you can't deny the benefits of meditation. Stress reduction alone accounts for more positive results than you can shake a fist at. (But you shouldn't still be shaking fists after you meditate, you know.)

Some days, though, even if we're good at (which I'm not) completely calming ourselves and shutting the rest of life out for a while, life has a way of screwin' up the works.

Braingle posted a suggestion to stare at something (a pencil, a plant, the dirty laundry) for about 5 minutes to help bring yourself back to focus. I tried it and it works for me. (Didn't make the laundry any cleaner, but I sure could focus a whole lot better.)

Today, though I learned that a run-of-the-mill household high-tech product can be a wonderful meditative tool. I ran a virus scan and was absolutely mesmorized. The left half of the document files line didn't change. It felt like that part of the line was my anchor. The interesting thing was that as I watched the right half of the line while it kept moving moving moving (not sure, but I think three 'movings' with no commas means 'real fast'), I began to calm myself enough to focus and find my center.

It looks like another use for an already useful tool. And, by the way, my computer is virus free.
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Do You Name Your Body Parts?

September 28th 2006 00:52
I don't live under a rock or somewhere where I'm alone all the time, but a lot of the things I see and hear about people and what they do strikes me as being really, really strange. But I figure it works the other way around, too, so it's a wash.

One thing that I always thought of as being downright wierd is men naming their penises. Isn't it enough that it already has a name? Are theirs so special and unique they can't be called the same as others?

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So here we are at the start of a new week and what a wonderful week it will be. (Did you count the doubleyous in that last sentence?) And how do I know it'll be a wonderful week? I don't, but it's easier for me to look at the positive than to anticipate any negatives that may or may not come about. My therapist doesn't like for me to get too anxious over negative projections.

So, anyway, how do you like the new color scheme here? I like it. I don't mind listening to suggestions, though. There are other colors on the wheel.

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