Unconvincingly, they try to assure the listener that he or she is unique and important to them: using a generic message. What an unusual and completely incomprehensible practice!
Practice of the barroom game of darts can apparently make you very fat but incredibly rich. Strange to think that the practice of throwing three darts, over and over again, into a small round target can be thought a suitable occupation for grown-ups; but I rather like it, I confess.
McTag wrote:Dreams of French explorers; Cadillac was a Frenchman, so is Michigan a French word, or native American like Gitchee-Gummee? Okay, HWL made it up, but it sounds kinda authentic.
I confess, McTag, that Michigan is indeed an indian word meaning: "great or large lake". Go figure, since I live in this big mitten practically surrounded by water!
Water is very important in the ancient art of feng shui. It may be significant that the churchyard on my eastern side blights the relationship component of my life.
devriesj wrote:McTag wrote:Dreams of French explorers; Cadillac was a Frenchman, so is Michigan a French word, or native American like Gitchee-Gummee? Okay, HWL made it up, but it sounds kinda authentic.
I confess, McTag, that Michigan is indeed an indian word meaning: "great or large lake". Go figure, since I live in this big mitten practically surrounded by water!
I found out that Mystic (as in Connecticut) is from an indian word missituk meaning a large tidal estuary.
Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. Tom Hanks had a good cry in Normandy today, and who could blame him for that?
That is a picture of a man muffled up for winter. It's entirely inappropriate now that the long summer evenings have come.
Come come come and make eyes at me. Down at the Old Bull and Bush.
Bush should know better than to say that World War II, just like the War on Iraq, was started by a 'surprise attack on America.' Not only is this insulting to veterans, by comparing them to the motley crue in Iraq and their cause against his, but it is also completely ignorant of History.
History repeats itself. Or, those that do not know history are condemed to repeat it.
It is worth saying, over and over: It's a long road that has no turning, and it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Good afternoon, everyone. It's another beautiful day here in Devon, and I going to sit in the garden.
Garden furniture is useful for sitting. Dejeuner sur l'herbe is fine but, I find, may give one indigestion
Indegestion seems to be one of my problems today. (TMI, I know.) My diet tends to be semi-vegetarian. So, apparently, by eating my semi-annual steak I've caused myself some grief!
Grief, say some, is an essential part of life; it makes happiness sweeter. I say that this is not accurate.
Accurate, I suppose depends on about what you are talking. In math you need to be accurate, not so much so in life.
Life insurance is good. Certainties are said to be taxes and death; both of which are helped, in a roundabout way, by life insurance.
I wonder why no insurance company has ever thought to call itself Honesty. Their slogan could then be, "Honesty is the Best Policy".....
What does the "D" in D-Day stand for. I always thought is was Demolition Day.
Insurance is a good thing to have. Too bad you have to go through something catastrophic to use it!
Letty wrote:
What does the "D" in D-Day stand for. I always thought is was Demolition Day.
In case you're really curious, Letty, I found this:
About D-Day
Thanks, dev. I don't know where I got the demolition from.
Know where the term "red-neck" comes from? It was given to North Carolinians by William Byrd of Virginia, because their necks got sunburned as they spent all day behind the plow. He didn't think much of the folks of North Carolina.