So for a self confessed cockney - if u dont have the knee......
<gets fits of giggles>
Twain held that one ought to rise with the lark. Not only does it suggest a certain gentility of character, but with very little training, one can get a lark to rise at any convenient hour.
Hmmm - more than euphonious than sparrow's fart, I do concede - but less accurate for us poor night owls, doomed to walk the day...
Are u talking abt my giggles ?
blatham - I am pretty well trained I guess <TEE HEE>
Euphony et al... I think a sparrow's fart likely to be quite delicate and unboastful, perhaps not unlike a forest spirit's sigh or the gentle gasp of a dewdrop as it releases from a high canopy leaf at dawn.
In a wonderful ocumentary I saw on Ella Fitzgerald, a very lively elderly lady who had been at the Cotton Club (I think) the night that Ella made her first public appearance said that Ella's physical appearance (she was one of a series of amateurs performing that night) set her at an immediate disadvantage, and the audience was immediately loud and raucous. Then Ella began to sing. The lady laughed, and said, "Pretty soon it was so quiet in there you could have heard a rat pissing on cotton."
blatham wrote:Euphony et al... I think a sparrow's fart likely to be quite delicate and unboastful, perhaps not unlike a forest spirit's sigh or the gentle gasp of a dewdrop as it releases from a high canopy leaf at dawn.
Never heard such beautiful sentiments abt farting <SIGH>
Blatham wrote:-
Quote:"Pretty soon it was so quiet in there you could have heard a rat pissing on cotton."
Very nice, even at the sub atomic level the electrons stopped in mid flight and the world stopped turning for the time she was singing, the rain stopped falling and held itself in balance with the earth motionless as they watched and listened -----
Blatham wrote:-
Quote:"Pretty soon it was so quiet in there you could have heard a rat pissing on cotton."
Very nice, even at the sub atomic level the electrons stopped in mid flight and the world stopped turning for the time she was singing, the rain stopped falling and held itself in balance with the earth motionless as they watched and listened -----
Wow - I didn't spot Ella Fitzgerald in "The Matrix"
Were you plugged in Pete ?
YAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
Couldn't sleep last night - met Margo in the ether at about 3.30 my time - she had slept but had been brutally woken by her Possum - so here I be, bleary-eyed and looking for trouble...
How do aussie rabbits like greyhound racing ? Do they bet on the dogs or the hare ????/
Neither.
hare is mechanical!
Auntie Lowan--
I have a hard one for ye.
Repression.
Everyone represses. When does normal repression of anger become unhealthy?
I'm repressing all the time, and I thought it was polite. But, sometimes anger spurts out inappropriately--and later you think-- I misdirected that.
How do you know when to address anger and when to cram it?
With great difficulty, Sofia!
I do wonder why you are angry so often?
Without trying to treat this silly thread as a serious problem place, I would be asking myself that question - what are your triggers - is there something you are not looking at or avoiding from which the anger is welling up?
As to the when - I think it is good to address things fairly directly with people at the time - if the anger belongs to that situation - and if you can do it without being really abusive (or inappropriate - I will never forget a time when I let quite reasonable anger over-ride my sense of time and place, and I let someone have it in a too public place - very wrong, I know) - sometimes 'tis better to cool down first. If other people are wearing it, or if you explode suddenly about a situation that has been bugging you for ages, I do not think that is fair to anyone.
I think sometimes we get a bit intoxicated by anger - especially "righteous" anger - and I think it can be good to look at our underlying cognitive schema - what are the beliefs we hold about the situations that are making us angry - are they reasonable ones?
I know I owe you $90.
I won't make a big, long drawn out thing of it.
I'm not angry often at all, but I feel sort of 'walked over'. You know, the small things-- suffering a rude waitress with a smile, being too polite to telemarketers, paying for a bad dye job... ($50. for daughter's blue hair, which was NOT blue. Turned out black.)
So, while these things are happening, I am not feeling angry, but I do feel like I'm bending over backwards for someone else's benefit--then when I get snippy in situations that don't think merit snippiness, I wonder if I should have addressed the telemarketer or the rude waitress or refused to pay the $50., maybe I wouldn't have blown the more inappropriate gasket.....
Over analyzing, it seems. Was just reading up on repression, and thought everybody did it to some degree.
I have resolved to start addressing these things. I think I'm going to be a bitch.
Yep, pretty sure of it.
I missed mac's posting of the lyrics. THANKS!! Now I have the whole song going through my head, and it's a good song. Much better than the J. Geils flu Boomer was spreading a bit ago, for example.
I am an incorrigible night owl. The sozlet is trying to corridge me but it's not quite working.
