WildClickers #72: Green, the color of life

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Now it is summertime and the world is dressed in green.
Green, so abundant in nature, signifies growth, health,environment, life.

Celebrating life and protecting life that's what we do.

If you don't know who the Wildclickers are-
here is ehBeth's introduction to us:

This is the 72nd thread started by our team - the AKTBird57's.
We call ourselves the WildClickers.

We have been daily taking a few minutes to click FREE to save a Rain Forest tree. So far, we have saved over 50 Acres of rain forest and contributed to many other very worthwhile causes. All free.

We are currently the Number One team in the world, among thousands of teams and over a million people participating.

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Thanks for the new thread, ul..........

We are the GREEN Wildclickers looking for more company to help save Rain Forest .................

All clicked today......................

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Thanks for the fresh, verdant pasture, ul.

my first exposure to green literature ...

http://www.everypicture.com/shop/books/9645a2ce4f6907fa0a3b916a2aaa995e/green-eggs-and-ham.jpg

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Thank you so much for the invitation, Ul. This new thread is certainly ...uh... green!!!

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Green literature, now I understand. Very Happy

Your book inspired an omelett aux herbes.
Maybe I can think of some green books which are not in German.

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A few years later, I found a book that hamburger used when learning English.

http://www.norbiton.com/blaenavon/covers/llewellyn.jpg

How Green Was My Valley.

Read it. Devoured it. Loved it.

http://www.nantyglo.com/howgreen.htm

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aktbird57 - You and your 298 friends have supported 2,425,863.5 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 116,214.8 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 298 friends have supported: (116,214.8)

American Prairie habitat supported: 52,903.8 square feet.
You have supported: (12,899.1)
Your 298 friends have supported: (40,004.7)

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,256,744.8 square feet.
You have supported: (171,399.8)
Your 298 friends have supported: (2,085,345.0)

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2425863.5 square feet is equal to 55.69 acres

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That's a good book to learn lessons of life from. Those older writers were superb. Some more current wannabees would do well to read them.

Yesterday, 12 June 06, I attended my very first meeting with the local Atlanta, Texas Chapter of the American Legion Post - I was the youngest member there. Only recently I decided to join the group. After the meeting was over - approx one hour - several of the members were asking where I lived. I began explaining the direction to my home - and became aware that I was achieving an "F" in giving directions - So...... I suddenly - looking around at the gentlemen - said, "Do you know where Colquit Pyle lived??" Several said, "Yes!!" I answered, "Well, I live across the street from his home."

Colquit Pyle passed away 31 years ago.

As I said, I was the youngest one there..............

Most of the gentlemen are retired farmers = GREEN
STUFF !!!!

Very Happy

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It is said that the color green has a soothing effect.
Looks like this statement is true.
WildClickers are relaxing- hope they click, though.

Beth, thanks for the book tip.
Nothing found with green in the title.

Danon,
so you are the youngest- did someone say: young and "grün hinter den Ohren"?

:wink:

A green picture-

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7452/img19188gm.jpg

New Mexico

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I have been AWOL from the computer for a bit. Nothing major - just worrisome life details. Hope to be more constant soon.

"How Green Was My Valley" was also a great movie. Katherine Hepburn?

Then there is always the wearing of the green - anything Irish.

Will resume clicking soon.

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ul, thanks for the new thread!

Ann Of Green Gables ~ Cottage

http://members.tripod.com/~AnnMacKinnon/anne.jpg

Green n' Blue...

http://forest.mtu.edu/images/front/fres1.jpg

Colors of the Forest...

http://www.geocities.com/annsnaturephotos/images/cr00017.jpg

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whoops - one more try...

Ann of Green Gables ~ Cottage

http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/patelmer/snaps/ann_green_gables.jpg

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Thanks to Rogers and Hart:

Quote:

On the first of May
it's a moving day;
spring is here, so blow your job-
throw your job away;

Now the time to trust
to your wonderlast.
In the city's dust you wait
must you wait?
Just you wait;

In a mountain greenery
where God paints the scenary
just two grazy people together.

While you love your lover, let
blues skies be your coverlet.
When it rains we laught at the weather.

And if you're good
I'll search for wood
so you can cook
while i stand looking.

Beans could get no keener re-
ception in a beanery.
Bless our Mountain Greenery home!

In a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together
How we love sequestering
Where no pests are pestering
No men holds us together

Mosquitoes here
Won't bite you, dear
I'll let them sting
Me on my finger

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hello all,

clicked

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith

((It has a green cover...))

And, this is at the first page......

'This is the forest primeval. The murmuring
pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green,
indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld.'

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The Sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing lounder around
To the bells' chearful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.

Old John, with white hair,
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
"Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls & boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green."

Till the little ones, weary,
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have on end.
Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sports no more seen
On the darkening Green.

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Great book, Dan!

For all you all Irish folk..........

The author of the song seems to think that the town of Greenock on the Firth of Clyde takes its name from a green oak tree. Unfortunately, his mother got the origin of the town's name wrong - the experts say it comes from the Gaelic "grianaig" meaning "at the sunny knoll" (or hill).

The Green Oak Tree

Here's to the Green Oak that grew at the square;
Here's to its roots that are still slumbering there;
Here's to my townsmen whaure're they may be;
I'm proud that I'm a branch o' the Green Oak Tree.
I'll sing about a wee toon that stands upon the Clyde,
It is the toon whaur I was born, it fills my heart with pride.
My mither often telt me as she crooned me on her knee,
That Greenock took its name frae the Green Oak Tree.

May Greenock like the Green Oak Tree still flourish 'neath the sun,
Her trade and commerce still increase for a thousands years to come.
And may each son o' Greenock as he battles thro' life's storm,
Be honest, true, and ne'er disgrace the toon whaur he was born.

Noo Greenock's no' a bonny toon I've heard some folk complain,
And ithers say when they go there, they nothing see but rain!
But let them say whate'er they may, wi' them I'll no agree,
For aye the name o' Greenock toon shall still be dear to me.

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1967 - my little group in the Gifted Grade 5 program decides to put on a gender-role reversed production of The Wind in the Willows for Parents Day. The principal puts the kibosh on our production. I end up serving sandwiches.

I am not impressed.

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http://www.foliosoc.co.uk/folio/books/wind_in_willows.jpg

The Wind in the Willows at the River and Rowing Museum

http://www.rrm.co.uk/images/museum/willows_image5.jpg

I THE RIVER BANK

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said `Bother!' and `O blow!' and also `Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, `Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow. <<<< click for the entire text through the Gutenberg Project

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aktbird57 - You and your 298 friends have supported 2,427,268.3 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 116,378.7 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 298 friends have supported: (116,378.7)

American Prairie habitat supported: 52,927.3 square feet.
You have supported: (12,899.1)
Your 298 friends have supported: (40,028.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,257,962.3 square feet.
You have supported: (171,399.8)
Your 298 friends have supported: (2,086,562.6)

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Clicked for me and devriesj today.

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2427268.3 square feet is equal to 55.72 acres

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Heading for 60 acres with a dash of panache!

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puts the kibosh-- he stops the production?

Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway.

The Farm in the Green Hills-
by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
Letters from Vermont- where the German author Zuckmayer had a farm during WWII.

A nice children book

Tistou les pouces verts by Maurice Druon.
( Tistou with the green thumb)
A little boy has the gift of a green thumb and he notices he can change the world.
( Years ago we made a play out of it)

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Yes - he stopped the production.

Quote:

Verb 1. kibosh - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
block, halt, stop
embargo - prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya"
foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid - keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"
stay - stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order"

Found a really interesting historical use of the phrase

Vintage Audio: Belgium Put The Kibosh On The Kaiser

Written by Alf Ellerton, Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser was published in Britain in 1915.

The song comprised a straightforward parody of the German Kaiser (Wilhelm II) and a celebration of the British war effort (and thus a decided recruitment booster). The version of the song available here was recorded by Mark Sheridan in 1915. (MP3 format 663kb).. ... click

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Nice tune ehBeth, that term - kibosh - sounds Yiddish doesn't it........

Here is a green themed item with a twist..............

((In the following - by Robert Burns - RASHES refers not to a skin disorder, but, to a RUSH of emotion - all sung to a tune))

'Green Grow The Rashes'

Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O!

((several verses about men struggling to get ahead with the above chorus in between each))

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O;
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses,O.

Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O!

Shocked

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