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What made you smile today?

 
 
Slappy Doo Hoo
 
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Reply Mon 27 Nov, 2006 01:32 pm
Lord Ellpus wrote:
Brilliant!

Slappy, your friend of a friend, REALLY looks like Roy Keane (Keano - a Manchester United legend).

http://glam.ie/roy+keane+02l.jpg


Wow, does look like him.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 27 Nov, 2006 01:58 pm
If you're interested, Slappy, here's "hard man" Roy Keane in action. Punch his name into youtube and you'll get loads of hits, he's that well known over here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16UWiqN9wvo
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 29 Nov, 2006 11:44 am
reviving this ... Very Happy
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George
 
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Reply Wed 29 Nov, 2006 12:24 pm
Clive's got his job back!

Flippin' bureaucrats had lost some of his paperwork, causing him to have
to wait over a month. But now he is back to work and feeling good about
himself.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 11:09 am
Sozlet lost her third tooth yesterday. She lost the first two long enough that the permanent teeth have grown in, and she just has one gap where the most recently lost tooth used to be. When she arrived at school, she grinned at her teacher who immediately said, "WOW, you lost your tooth!! Yay!!" It made me smile that the teacher got it right away and was so enthusiastic.
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eoe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 01:02 pm
Yeah? Well just make sure that she doesn't hug and rub her face into anybody's bosom other than yours.:wink:

What made me smile today? Getting our Toys for Tots shopping done and into the bin before Wednesday's deadline. Very Happy
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squinney
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 01:12 pm
I hear ya, eoe.

Yesterday I did Pancakes with Santa at the Clubhouse. I had also set up an angel tree for residents to select and bring a toy to the Pancake Breakfast to donate to Toys for Tots.

Just as the event was about to start, up walked two Marines in full dress to stand beside Santa and the tree and accept the gifts the residents brought. (first smile - wasn't sure if they would be available until they arrived)

About an hour into the event, one of the marines said he was going to have to go back to the office to get a bigger van to haul off all of the toys donated. (second smile)

As he was leaving through the back door we saw that someone(s) had donated two bikes, fully assembled, and a little tykes car and left them in the back hallway. (third smile)

And, of course, I got to sit on Santa's lap. (Dirty grin)
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 01:36 pm
Eoe, how did you find the drop-off place and the deadline? squinney, good for you for being involved... do you have any links for me, either? (I found toysfortots2006.com but they only provide an email address, not location or deadline for Columbus. Can write to the person at the email address if need be.)

I have four big wonderful teddybears (extras from Sozlet's birthday party) that I want to give to Toys for Tots, but I'm not finding much online.
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eoe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 01:45 pm
PUBLIX grocery stores are one of the drop-off places here in Ga. Often a retail chain like Best Buys or Circuit City will have a drop-off bin. I recall having to pay close attention to tv and radio ads to hear where to drop off because the websites don't give much info at all. Just imagine the number of people who give up because of that???

That's great Squinney. Very pleased that the Marines showed up. What an impressive sight that must have been, all decked out in uniform and standing next to Santa.

Who played Santa? Don't tell me... Shocked
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squinney
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 01:50 pm
Try This link of Ohio Drop Off Locations

Or go to Toysfortots.org home page and click on Find a local campaign office.

This community does charity all year. We run for the Food Bank, have a Casino Night for cancer, sponsor families in need, do a spring triathlon for leukemia, etc. It's a great community for that, so putting things together (my job) is easy knowing they'll participate eagerly.

eoe- You're too funny! Who was Santa? hahaha. Santa was Santa, you silly girl! Very Happy

I'll have to see if I can post a pic from yesterdays event. Yeah, it was beautiful! Especially seeing the children walk up to the marines to give them the toys. The marines would kneel down to their level when needed, shich was great!
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:11 pm
squinney, that's the same thing I found before -- it has drop-off locations for a lot of other cities but for Columbus there is just an email address. I'll write to that person, I guess.

The Bluejackets hosted a drive but that was over in November.

I agree, eoe, seems like there could be more online resources there and that the lack thereof might hurt them.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:16 pm
Wrote to the guy, got an "out of office" automated reply, he won't be back until January 3rd. :-? Can keep them until next year, I guess.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:26 pm
Soz, there was a report in the Dispatch yesterday ...

http://i16.tinypic.com/2mngmzt.jpg
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:29 pm
Given my experience so far I'm not at all surprised at the drop. I'll see if I can follow up on that though, thanks for the lead! (Maybe I should start subscribing to the Dispatch...)
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:31 pm
Quote:
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:43 pm
Maybe I'll donate directly to the King Arts complex.

Wrote to the author of the article, will see what he has to say.

Thanks again, Walter. At the very least I'm learning how this all works locally in preparation for next year.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:44 pm
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malek
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 03:30 pm
My niece having lost one front tooth, was trying hard to loosen the other with her tongue as she said she "needed the tooth fairy money to buy things for christmas".
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the prince
 
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Reply Tue 19 Dec, 2006 05:15 am
The wife of one the guys who works for me backed his brand new Mercedes into his vintage Porsche !!

He is pissed, but we all our laughing out guts out !!
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sozobe
 
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Reply Tue 19 Dec, 2006 02:20 pm
Seeing that Sturgis had replied to Bear's generalized booty call (before I even saw what he'd said.)

Also, a couple of days ago I saw this guy and I wanted to write about him. He was out walking, sort of a clean-shaven version of Gus. White haired, wrinkly, a little stooped but still quite spry. He had on this great sweatshirt but I couldn't remember the phrasing exactly. Just saw him again a few minutes ago, wearing the same sweatshirt: STOP PLATE TECTONICS!
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